- From: jfkthame via GitHub <sysbot+gh@w3.org>
- Date: Wed, 17 Mar 2021 21:05:00 +0000
- To: public-css-archive@w3.org
jfkthame has just created a new issue for https://github.com/w3c/csswg-drafts: == [css-fonts] bikeshedding name of `size-adjust` descriptor == I'm wondering whether `size-adjust` is the best name for this descriptor that we just resolved to add in #6075. The association with the `font-size-adjust` property is one consideration; I can't decide if the similarity of the name is good or bad. On the one hand, there's definitely a similarity between the two features: they both adjust the size at which a font is actually used for a given computed `font-size`. But on the other hand, they're quite different in how they operate and what their value means. The descriptor takes a scale factor (percentage) that is simply and directly applied to the font, while the `font-size-adjust` property takes a number that kind-of looks like a scale factor but is actually a proportion of the computed `font-size` that serves as a target for the x-height of the used font. This seems a sufficiently different model that maybe associating the property and the descriptor by similar naming isn't really a good thing. So before we go ahead and implement/ship this, I'd like us to consider whether a different name such as `glyph-scale-factor`, `scale-factor`, or even simply `scale` or `scaling` would be better. Such names seem to me to very directly state what the descriptor does, and avoid the implied parallel to `font-size-adjust` whose values have quite a different interpretation. Please view or discuss this issue at https://github.com/w3c/csswg-drafts/issues/6114 using your GitHub account -- Sent via github-notify-ml as configured in https://github.com/w3c/github-notify-ml-config
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