- From: John Daggett <jdaggett@mozilla.com>
- Date: Sun, 4 Mar 2012 18:04:03 -0800 (PST)
- To: "Tab Atkins Jr." <jackalmage@gmail.com>
- Cc: W3C www-style mailing list <www-style@w3.org>, Schalk Neethling <sneethling@mozilla.com>, Philippe Wittenbergh <ph.wittenbergh@l-c-n.com>
Tab Atkins wrote: > Fallback fonts are *always* the same size as the main font, because > they all use the same font-size declaration. font-size-adjust just > lets you change what you're using to define "size", because having the > same x-height can be visually more appealing when mixing fonts. No, fallback fonts are sized differently depending upon the ratio of their x-height to em size, as specified in the description of the font-size-adjust property. The size is determined by a combination of 'font-size' and 'font-size-adjust'. The reason for keeping x-height constant is less about being "visually more appealing" than it is about readability at small sizes, where the x-height is a determining factor. Regards, John Daggett
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