- From: John Hudson <tiro@tiro.com>
- Date: Mon, 13 Sep 2010 18:43:52 -0700
- To: "Tab Atkins Jr." <jackalmage@gmail.com>
- CC: Thomas Phinney <tphinney@cal.berkeley.edu>, Sergey Malkin <sergeym@microsoft.com>, John Daggett <jdaggett@mozilla.com>, Sylvain Galineau <sylvaing@microsoft.com>, www-style@w3.org, www-font <www-font@w3.org>
Tab Atkins Jr. wrote: > I'd strongly desire some way to say "please simulate variants I'm not > explicitly specifying"; I don't particularly care whether this is the > default or some extra option I have to specify in @font-face. That's a position I'm perfectly happy with. My broad take on this is that the web designer should be able to specify one of three positions: 1. Never simulate styles; if font is unavailable, fall back to a family that provides what is needed. 2. Simulating styles is just fine. 3. Explicitly simulate a style, i.e. use simulation here in preference to the style linked font. [As an example of where the third position might be desirable, I have a novel set in one of my early typefaces that uses a simulated italic (mechanically sloped roman) for a particular voice in the text that the author and book designer wanted to be visually distinguished from regular italics.] John Hudson
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