> 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 > --- > Philippe Wittenbergh > http://l-c-n.com/
Thank you everyone for all the info about fallback fonts, aspect-ratios and lots of stuff that overwhelms me! I will look into those firebug add-ons. I appreciate all the feedback about my font issue. Rory ______________________________________________________________________ css-discuss [[email protected]] http://www.css-discuss.org/mailman/listinfo/css-d List wiki/FAQ -- http://css-discuss.incutio.com/ List policies -- http://css-discuss.org/policies.html Supported by evolt.org -- http://www.evolt.org/help_support_evolt/
