Re: [css-d] Trying to make text lighter than 100

2011-03-06 Thread Felix Miata
On 2011/03/06 18:31 (GMT+0900) Philippe Wittenbergh composed: http://dev.l-c-n.com/_b/dejavu-12px.png (not that I would recommend it for body text, but it does display fine) Again I'm puzzled. How does one validate a font face? http://sourceforge.net/projects/dejavu/files/dejavu/2.33/dejavu

Re: [css-d] Trying to make text lighter than 100

2011-03-06 Thread Philippe Wittenbergh
On Mar 6, 2011, at 1:35 AM, Felix Miata wrote: >> Your test case has bad fall back. I don't have DejaVu (*) installed > > What makes it "bad"? Did note 1 escape your understanding? Note 1 is buried several screens deep. My bad for not having the time for the need to scroll down that far to fi

Re: [css-d] Trying to make text lighter than 100

2011-03-05 Thread G.Sørtun
I need to research what other characters/symbols are available. http://www.alanwood.net/unicode/ __ css-discuss [css-d@lists.css-discuss.org] http://www.css-discuss.org/mailman/listinfo/css-d List wiki/FAQ -- http://css-discuss

Re: [css-d] Trying to make text lighter than 100

2011-03-05 Thread Keith Purtell
On 3/5/2011 10:35 AM, css-d-requ...@lists.css-discuss.org wrote: > From: "Jukka K. Korpela" To: "css discuss" > Subject: Re: [css-d] Trying to make text > lighter than 100 Message-ID: <666BFB384B304003AF58CE70FC5C2133@JukanPC> > Content-Type: text/pla

Re: [css-d] Trying to make text lighter than 100

2011-03-05 Thread Felix Miata
On 2011/03/05 21:30 (GMT+0900) Philippe Wittenbergh composed: Felix Miata wrote: http://fm.no-ip.com/Auth/Font/fonts-weightier.html should show at least some readers that weights lighter than 400 do exist in at least a couple of commonly available families, one of which is free and available

Re: [css-d] Trying to make text lighter than 100

2011-03-05 Thread Chetan Crasta
Some articles that deal with font-weight. I couldn't find any newer ones. http://clagnut.com/blog/2228/ http://destination-code.blogspot.com/2009/01/font-weight-number-keywords-100-900.html >From the Clagnut article, this remark puts things in perspective: "Frankly it’s really depressing that thi

Re: [css-d] Trying to make text lighter than 100

2011-03-05 Thread Chetan Crasta
On Sat, Mar 5, 2011 at 4:14 PM, Felix Miata wrote: > This thread got me to investigating a little. > http://fm.no-ip.com/Auth/Font/fonts-weightier.html should show at least some > readers that weights lighter than 400 do exist in at least a couple of > commonly available families, one of which is

Re: [css-d] Trying to make text lighter than 100

2011-03-05 Thread Philippe Wittenbergh
On Mar 5, 2011, at 7:44 PM, Felix Miata wrote: > http://fm.no-ip.com/Auth/Font/fonts-weightier.html should show at least some > readers that weights lighter than 400 do exist in at least a couple of > commonly available families, one of which is free and available to all, and > installed by d

Re: [css-d] Trying to make text lighter than 100

2011-03-05 Thread Felix Miata
On 2011/03/05 09:33 (GMT+0200) Jukka K. Korpela composed: ...it is very difficult to get a font weight smaller than 400 (normal), such as 100... you won't find light versions of commonly used fonts. This thread got me to investigating a little. http://fm.no-ip.com/Auth/Font/fonts-weightier.ht

Re: [css-d] Trying to make text lighter than 100

2011-03-04 Thread Jukka K. Korpela
Keith Purtell wrote: I'm using a carat character instead of an image of an arrow to point upwards. I suppose you mean the circumflex "^" (sometimes called the caret). I wonder why you don't use an upwards arrow character instead. If you don't know how to enter it in your editing environment,

Re: [css-d] Trying to make text lighter than 100

2011-03-04 Thread Chetan Crasta
> http://www.keithpurtell.com/kthings/gifts-of-song.htm#player > > and here's the CSS so far > > div.up { >        font-size:10em; >        font-weight:100 !important; >        vertical-align:-.3em; >        } > > All of the web-safe fonts are available only in two weights (afaik): normal (400

[css-d] Trying to make text lighter than 100

2011-03-04 Thread Keith Purtell
I'm using a carat character instead of an image of an arrow to point upwards. I was able to use vertical-align to bring it closer to the text it accompanies, but for some reason I've lost the ability to make the carat character larger. Here's a link http://www.keithpurtell.com/kthings/gifts-of