- From: Kenji Baheux <kenjibaheux@chromium.org>
- Date: Thu, 8 Jan 2015 13:27:34 +0900
- To: www-style@w3.org
- Message-ID: <CADWWn7XLi5LfFaRbt0wqTbEiVhAZXGG+z6CKnjLAiZaxRg8dog@mail.gmail.com>
Hi,
Currently CSS font-weight can take a few fixed number values: 100, 200,
300, ..., 900
It was brought to my attention that fonts with intermediary font-weights
seems to be more common lately:
- Roboto and Noto Sans CJK have a 250 thin font variant
- Apparently Windows has been shipping with 350 semi-light fonts for quite
a while now:
- LeelUIsl.ttf: Leelawadee UI Semilight
- NirmalaS.ttf: Nirmala UI Semilight
- segoeuisl.ttf: Segoe UI Semilight
- seguisli.ttf: Segoe UI Semilight Italic
I have been floating this around to a few folks to gather initial feedback.
Notably, Bram Stein from Adobe investigated the behavior of different
browsers when presented with non-standard font-weight values:
"I’ve tested on all browsers I have access to (IE6+, Android 2.2+, iOS
4+, Firefox, Chrome, Opera, Safari, BlackBerry, etc.)
and all of them fall back to “normal” when they don’t recognize a font
weight value (in either @font-face or by itself).
My test case is here: https://github.com/bramstein/font-weight-test"
Should the restriction on font-weight be relaxed?
- all positive integers?
- all integers between 100 to 900?
- add 50 increments between 100 to 900?
Best,
Received on Thursday, 8 January 2015 04:28:21 UTC