- From: Michael Day <mikeday@yeslogic.com>
- Date: Tue, 03 Mar 2009 20:41:55 +1100
- To: Thomas Phinney <tphinney@cal.berkeley.edu>
- CC: John Daggett <jdaggett@mozilla.com>, www-style <www-style@w3.org>
Hi Thomas,
> I'm also curious, what field you use to define "family" in this
> context? (Some platforms/APIs may consider, say, "Arial Black Italic"
> part of the "Arial" family, and others might consider it part of the
> "Arial Black" family....)
What field in the font? That's up to the platform. If the user says:
font: italic 12pt Arial Black
then the font-family is "Arial Black", but if they say:
font: 900 italic 12pt Arial
then the font-family is "Arial", and "Arial Black" may not be chosen if
it is considered a completely different font-family by the platform.
I don't consider this a problem, personally, and it hasn't come up as an
issue thus far. However, I would make a call to the typographers in the
audience to group related fonts under a single family if possible :)
Cheers,
Michael
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Received on Tuesday, 3 March 2009 09:42:54 UTC