- From: John Daggett <jdaggett@mozilla.com>
- Date: Mon, 17 Jan 2011 21:17:19 -0800 (PST)
- To: Ambrose LI <ambrose.li@gmail.com>
- Cc: Brad Kemper <brad.kemper@gmail.com>, MasaFuji <masa@fuji.email.ne.jp>, www-style list <www-style@w3.org>, Thomas Phinney <tphinney@cal.berkeley.edu>
Ambrose Li wrote: > I am not so sure that the original question was even talking > about artificially condensing and expanding fonts. But > supposing that it was, maybe we should at least be aware that > real condensed and expanded fonts generally do not even exist > in the CJK world, and the only way we can achieve any variation > in width at all is artificially. This is not entirely correct. While families that include a mixture of widths generally don't exist, newspapers in Japan often use a slightly expanded (i.e. non-square em-box) face such as the one below: Mainichi Mincho (Morisawa): http://www.morisawa.co.jp/font/fontlist/details/fontfamily038.html?s=87 Regards, John Daggett
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