Thank Philippe. I'll have to read through that. With a lot of coffee I'm sure.
Sent from iOS 5 On May 3, 2012, at 8:52 PM, Philippe Wittenbergh <e...@l-c-n.com> wrote: > > Le May 4, 2012 à 12:24 AM, Tom Livingston a écrit : > >> After thinking about this, WHY doesnt this still >> double-bold the custom font? Just a function of @font-face? > > To add to what Markus already explained, an @font-face at-rule consists of a > set of _descriptors_: name of the font, where it can be found (src: local() > or src: url()), its weight and style, the character range it contains, etc. > > You basically tell the rendering engine: look, use this face whenever a bold > face with normal font-style is needed (in the original example). > > You can go quite creative with this, e.g use an ultra-light face and declare > it to be 'bold', etc. And the additional font-variant and > font-feature-settings descriptors open lots of possibilities (but that is > still a bit of a future thing). > > spec is here: > http://www.w3.org/TR/css3-fonts/#font-resources > > If your design requires different styles and weights for a given font-family, > then you better make sure to include resources for each one needed, else the > UA will start create artificial bolding & slanting – this can turn out > _really_ ugly. Firefox 11 + with artificial bold at larger font sizes (30px > or higher) is plain terrible, I've seen Opera 12 beta doing really awful > things with bold + italic on OS X (I hope the fix that bug before release…). > > > -- > Philippe Wittenbergh > http://l-c-n.com > > > > ______________________________________________________________________ > css-discuss [css-d@lists.css-discuss.org] > 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/ ______________________________________________________________________ css-discuss [css-d@lists.css-discuss.org] 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/
