Re: [WSG] CSS font-size-adjust

[Rob Schumann]

Hi Christian,

Christian Montoya wrote on 21-10-2008:
 > 
 > Thanks Rob, I think that just about answers all my questions. Would
 > it be possible for you to update your tables with the Vista fonts?
 > 
I've updated the aspect-ratio/x-widths article to include the 6 'C'
fonts of Vista



Updates for other fonts, and to bring font availability tables
up-to-date will follow later.

Cheers


Rob


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Re: [WSG] CSS font-size-adjust

[Rob Schumann]

Hi Christian,

Christian Montoya wrote on 20-10-2008:

 > http://unitinteractive.com/blog/2008/06/26/better-css-font-stacks/

Back in September 2006 I wrote a piece that reached some similar
conclusions to that above


At the time the use of font-size-adjust was an impractical solution due
to it's very poor support among browsers... not even consistently across
all platforms for firefox. I don't think much has changed in that
regard, but would have to check to be sure.

The best solution therefore was to use available resources regarding
font availability and to plan typography around that, looking for fonts
of similar aspect ratio with which to build your family (or stack, call
it what you will).

I've also setup tables of aspect ratios and x-widths for some common
fonts, since aspect ratios don't give necessarily the complete picture
(verdana and tahoma share the same aspect ratio, but differ
significantly in x-width).



Hope these may be of some use...

Cheers


Rob


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