- From: Tab Atkins Jr. <jackalmage@gmail.com>
- Date: Mon, 5 Mar 2012 08:52:03 -0800
- To: Markus Ernst <derernst@gmx.ch>
- Cc: www-style@w3.org
On Mon, Mar 5, 2012 at 6:04 AM, Markus Ernst <derernst@gmx.ch> wrote:
> The discussion on "font-size-adjust curiosity", and a discussion in the
> css-d list made me have a look at the font-size-adjust property. I suggest
> to add the possibility to add a font name as a value. The x-height of the
> displayed font would then be adjusted to the x-height of the font specified
> in font-size-adjust (which will usually be one of the fonts in font-family):
>
> body {
> font-family: Calibri, "Lucida Grande", Arial, sans-serif;
> font-size-adjust: Arial;
> }
>
> Use case (resp. rationale): Web authors are usually not typographical
> experts, most do not even know about a thing such as aspect ratio. In order
> to specify the appropriate numeric value for font-size-adjust as specified
> now, every author needs to look up the correct value for the font of first
> choice. It would be very much easier for them to just specify, which font
> out of the font-family list they consider most supported, and thus use as a
> reference.
>
> Of course misunderstanding authors might write something like:
>
> font-family: "My fancy font", Arial, sans-serif;
> font-size-adjust: "My fancy font";
>
> Unknown fonts in font-size-adjust will have the effect that the
> font-size-adjust statement is ignored, which does not more harm than
> omitting font-size-adjust at all.
I like this proposal!
~TJ
Received on Monday, 5 March 2012 16:52:55 UTC