Hello list, I am currently investigating the disparities between various screen fonts and trying to come up with good font stacks that I can use in Blueprint CSS [1]. I found this page:
http://www.w3schools.com/CSS/pr_font_font-size-adjust.asp which explains how Verdana and Times, for example, have different aspect values. One of the problems I've had with specifying font families is that the size of text blocks, and the overall look of a page, is greatly affected if the user sees it in a different font from the intended choice, such as Verdana vs. Lucida Grande, because the actual size of the font (beyond just the font-size property) is vastly different. A further problem is that recently common fonts such as the Vista font collection (Calibri, Cambria, etc.) are significantly smaller at the same font-size as the classic Windows fonts (Arial, Verdana, Georgia, Trebuchet). Ultimately the goal is to be able to set up a font stack with fonts that have similar aspect values, letter widths, spacing, etc. so that the difference from one OS or device to the next is minimal, but it seems that I would have to adjust the aspect value with CSS to make that happen. So here are my questions: - What's the support across browsers / machines for the font-size-adjust property? - Is adjusting the aspect value bad form? Is this as bad as letter-spacing body copy? Would this kill sheep? - Has anyone done this before? Is there an ideal aspect value for screen display? Thanks in advance. [1] http://blueprintcss.org -- -- Christian Montoya christianmontoya.net ******************************************************************* List Guidelines: http://webstandardsgroup.org/mail/guidelines.cfm Unsubscribe: http://webstandardsgroup.org/join/unsubscribe.cfm Help: [EMAIL PROTECTED] *******************************************************************
