Contact emails
[email protected]

Specification
https://drafts.csswg.org/css-fonts-4/#font-width-prop


Summary
Exposes the width attribute on FontFace and the @font-face font-width 
descriptor as aliases for stretch and font-stretch. Aligns Chromium with the 
updated CSS Font Loading and CSS Fonts 4 specifications. Developers can now 
inspect or initialize font face widths using FontFace.width and CSS font-width 
interchangeably with stretch and font-stretch.


Blink component
Blink>CSS


Web Feature ID
font-width


Motivation
CSS Font Loading and CSS Fonts 4 define width as the primary FontFace 
descriptor attribute and @font-face descriptor, while retaining stretch as a 
legacy alias. Chromium previously ignored the width constructor member and 
font-width descriptor, causing Web Platform Tests to fail. Exposing width 
aligns Chromium with the updated specification.


Initial public proposal
No information provided


TAG review
Not needed - Small spec-alignment bug fix.


TAG review status
Not applicable


Goals for experimentation
None


Risks




Interoperability and Compatibility
Low risk. Fixes failing Web Platform Tests and aligns Chromium with the updated 
CSS Font Loading and CSS Fonts 4 specifications.

Gecko: Shipped/Shipping 
(https://wpt.fyi/results/css/css-font-loading/font-face-width-descriptor-aliasing.html)
 Firefox passes the test.

WebKit: No signal

Web developers: No signals

Other signals:


WebView application risks

Does this intent deprecate or change behavior of existing APIs, such that it 
has potentially high risk for Android WebView-based applications?
None. It is strictly additive aliasing for existing stretch functionality.



Debuggability
No special DevTools debugging support required. Standard CSS descriptor 
inspection applies.


Will this feature be supported on all six Blink platforms (Windows, Mac, Linux, 
ChromeOS, Android, and Android WebView)?
Yes
Supported in Blink CSS core.


Is this feature fully tested by web-platform-tests?
Yes
https://wpt.fyi/results/css/css-font-loading/font-face-width-descriptor-aliasing.html


Flag name on about://flags
No information provided


Finch feature name
No information provided


Non-finch justification
Waterfall rollout without Finch flag.


Rollout plan
Will ship enabled for all users


Requires code in //chrome?
False


Tracking bug
https://issues.chromium.org/issues/543938492


Measurement
None


Availability expectation
Feature is available on Web Platform Baseline within 12 months of launch in 
Chrome.


Adoption expectation
Feature is considered a best practice for configuring font face width 
descriptors within 12 months of reaching Web Platform baseline.


Adoption plan
Web Platform Tests (WPT) have been added to ensure cross-browser 
interoperability. MDN documentation will be updated to reflect FontFace.width 
as the standard descriptor.


Non-OSS dependencies

Does the feature depend on any code or APIs outside the Chromium open source 
repository and its open-source dependencies to function?
No


Estimated milestones


Shipping on desktop 153

Shipping on Android 153

Shipping on WebView 153




Anticipated spec changes

Open questions about a feature may be a source of future web compat or interop 
issues. Please list open issues (eg links to known github issues in the project 
for the feature specification) whose resolution may introduce web 
compat/interop risk (eg, changing to naming or structure of the API in a 
non-backward-compatible way).
None


Link to entry on the Chrome Platform Status
https://chromestatus.com/feature/5145402365050880?gate=5525688097570816


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