- From: Tim Brown via GitHub <sysbot+gh@w3.org>
- Date: Mon, 26 Sep 2016 23:14:30 +0000
- To: public-css-archive@w3.org
tbrown has just created a new issue for https://github.com/w3c/csswg-drafts: == [css-fonts-4] [varfonts] Specify variable font instances relative to an ”anchor point” == I'm not sure exactly how to point to [the spec](https://drafts.csswg.org/css-fonts-4/) about this... I say “anchor typeface” to refer to a choice of font (usually body text font) around which you make other decisions (type palette, layout). I’m thinking of saying “anchor point” to refer to a specific point in a variable font’s design space. The point around which it flexes. As a typographer, I might choose the default instance of a variable font (Regular weight/width) as my anchor point — or I might choose a different, unnamed instance. And from there, I would respond to pressure by moving along various axes relative to that anchor point. By this logic, I might want to specify flexibility and responsiveness relative to the anchor point, instead of picking absolute coordinates in the design space. In the same way that em-based measurements are affected by changing the value to which they all refer, positions along various axes in a variable font would be affected by changing the anchor point to which they refer. Please view or discuss this issue at https://github.com/w3c/csswg-drafts/issues/536 using your GitHub account
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