On Mon, Oct 20, 2008 at 11:30 AM, Matthew Nuzum <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On Sun, Oct 19, 2008 at 6:29 PM, davor <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> On Sun, Oct 19, 2008 at 11:04 PM, Matthew Nuzum <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >>> How do you tell if the font is too tall and what is the impact of >>> choosing such a font? Does it cause the line-height to increase to >>> accommodate the font or does it just fill in the whitespace and cause >>> the text to look jumbled? >> > > This is why I was curious and asked how to tell if a font was too tall > and what the impact of choosing such a font is. Presumably it's > reduced white space but would love to know if my assumption is wrong. >
OK everyone, I just found the missing link to this whole dilemma. The following page explains why there is so much disparity between fonts: http://www.w3schools.com/CSS/pr_font_font-size-adjust.asp In order to make sure that a font-stack will have a consistent x-height for whichever font the user sees, you would have to adjust the x-height directly with this CSS rule. This may be bad form, however, because most screen fonts are designed around their given x-height, and changing that would go against the inherent design of the typeface as a whole. I'm going to do some more research on this issue as I strive to make typography.css work for as many users as possible. -- -- Christian Montoya christianmontoya.net --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Blueprint CSS" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/blueprintcss?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
