[OpenFontLibrary] CSS cascades: substituting typefaces with different appearing sizes

Dave Crossland dave at lab6.com
Wed Nov 19 10:06:44 PST 2008


2008/11/19 Ben Weiner <ben at readingtype.org.uk>:
>
> In the case of a web page, the substitute typeface might need to be bigger
> or smaller; more likely, it might need more or less line feed. But there is
> no way to change the parameters of a CSS rule based on the typeface
> (font-family) selected by the browser from a cascade like
>
>  font-family: "My Cool Sans", "Trebuchet" sans-serif;
>
> I wonder if anyone has thoughts about this.

You should post this immediately on www-style at w3.org list :-)


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