- 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,
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