Re: Proposal: add a "small-caps" value to "font-synthesis"

On 7/30/15, 2:42 PM, "Myles C. Maxfield" <mmaxfield@apple.com> wrote:

>Hello,
>
>The font-synthesis CSS property is a way for authors to opt-out of 
>synthesized font traits such as bold or italics. It seems reasonable to 
>add small-caps to this set. Using "font-synthesis: small-caps;" would 
>specify that, if a small-caps font cannot be found, to use a 
>non-small-caps font without synthesizing smaller, capital, text.
>
>What are your thoughts?

I like the idea of disallowing shrunken small caps, but font-synthesis 
appears to be specified in the reverse of your usage: 
“font-synthesis:weight;” allows smearing and “font-synthesis:none;” is the 
setting to disallow it. That makes it difficult to add new categories of 
synthesis blocking using that property.

Thanks,

Alan

Received on Thursday, 30 July 2015 22:00:42 UTC