Re: [css3-fonts] CSS3 font-weight, OFF OS2.usWeightClass, and weights which are not a multiple of 100. from Ben Weiner on 2011-02-15 (www-style@w3.org from February 2011)

From: Ben Weiner <ben@readingtype.org.uk>
Date: Tue, 15 Feb 2011 09:41:21 +0000
To: www-font@w3.org
Cc: www-style list <www-style@w3.org>
Message-Id: <BB912047-D116-46EF-B160-B958CFF30355@readingtype.org.uk>

Hi,

On 15 Feb 2011, at 07:36, John Daggett wrote:

> But no platform that I know of ships with more than a handful of
> font families that contain faces outside the typical set of
> normal/bold/italic combinations.  I'm sure more will ship in the
> future but I doubt we'll see font families with close to nine
> weights ever ship on a platform by default.

Now that's a prediction I'd like to see overturned within the year ;-)

Ben

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