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

From: Irfan Mir <theirf@gmail.com>
Date: Tue, 15 Feb 2011 11:02:18 -0500
To: www-style@w3.org
Message-Id: <6F91585B-E2A0-4887-A620-864B0BE563AA@gmail.com>

Are you saying that you would prefer to have font-wights that are not multiples of 100 along with the multiples of 100?
On 15Feb, 2011, at 4:41 am, Ben Weiner wrote:

> 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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