| Summary: | DejaVu needs a semi-bold weight | ||
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| Product: | DejaVu | Reporter: | Nicolas Mailhot <nicolas.mailhot> |
| Component: | General | Assignee: | Deja Vu bugs <dejavu-bugs> |
| Status: | NEW --- | QA Contact: | |
| Severity: | enhancement | ||
| Priority: | high | ||
| Version: | unspecified | ||
| Hardware: | x86 (IA32) | ||
| OS: | Linux (All) | ||
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| i915 platform: | i915 features: | ||
| Bug Depends on: | |||
| Bug Blocks: | 7433, 7470 | ||
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Description
Nicolas Mailhot
2006-07-09 10:04:27 UTC
Please make sure that the extra font weights (extra light, semi bold, etc.) map to the 9 steps of boldness defined in CSS. http://www.w3.org/TR/CSS21/fonts.html#font-boldness We currently have: 200 - ExtraLight 400 - Book 700 - Bold This leaves rooms for 100 (Thin*), 300 (Light), 500 (Medium), 600 (SemiBold), 800 (Black), 900 (ExtraBlack). * Names should not matter, systems that use them in the backend are flawed. http://www.monotypeimaging.com/ProductsServices/pan3.aspx is very useful on the topic. With their WeightRat = CapH / WStem(E) we have: ExtraLight: 14.6 (10 <= WeightRat < 18) -> 300 (Thin) Regular: 7.4 (5.5 <= WeightRat < 7.5) -> 500 (Medium), 0.1 short of being 400 Bold: 3.9 (3.5 <= WeightRat < 4.5) -> 700 (Bold) Legacy systems would need families of 4 styles. We recently split ExtraLight into another legacy family: DejaVu Sans Light. Here's a list of what the families could be: Thin : 100 Light : 200, 300 Regular : 400, 700 - Current default family Medium : 500, 600 - strange family in between Regular and Bold Black : 800, (900*) Anyway, it will take time before anybody seriously starts working on these. Hirwen Harendal has made some Medium and Semi-Bold variants of Vera, available at http://perso.orange.fr/arkandis/ADF/workshop.htm |
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