[csswg-drafts] [css-fonts] Proposal to make CSS font-optical-sizing #4430 (#4540)

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== [css-fonts] Proposal to make CSS font-optical-sizing #4430 ==
@tiroj wrote elsewhere,

> Here's a bonkers idea I came up with some years ago, looking at the CSS font-size-adjust property and pondering how one might define such a property in a way that wasn't Latin-centric and could be applied to any script (the property is defined in terms of x-height size, so is really only relevant to European scripts and a few outliers): why not define a standard model, a set of standard measurements for key features of individual scripts, on a shared scale. The model would capture some conventional size relationships between different scripts as found in existing examples of good multi-script typography, and measurements in the model would constitute the default size relationship, which could then be manipulated for the purpose of adjusting the scaling of different fonts to have a common visual size impact. I think this idea could also be applied to the question of what is measured in parametric variable font axes: we could define a standard model that embodies the axes scales in terms of actual glyphs, against which font developers could measure their own designs in terms of compatible size, weight impression, etc..



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