On Jan 12, 2011, at 11:32 AM, Richard Mason wrote:

> On Wed, 12 Jan 2011, Philippe Wittenbergh wrote
> 
>> If you want/need to know the aspect ratio of a font, this service can help 
>> (for fonts installed on your local drives):
>> http://fontdeck.com/font-size-adjust.html
>> or this page:
>> http://brunildo.org/test/fontlist3.html
> 
> Both wrong because the aspect ratio of a font is not fixed but varies with 
> font size.
> At http://www.emdpi.com/cssfontsizeadjust.html I have a download with graphs 
> of aspect ratio v font size (10px to 50px) for a number of fonts.

Both services will give you an idea of how the aspect-ratio of the fallback 
font will relate to the first-choice font. That is the point. Without using 
font-size adjust, it doesn't matter much beyond that (and even with 
font-size-adjust, it doesn't really matter).

Philippe
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Philippe Wittenbergh
http://l-c-n.com/





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