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I want CSS to have access to font metrics |
2020-02-27 23:15:20 UTC |
Christopher Kirk-Nielsen |
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There are a lot of typography-related properties in CSS, but we are still far from what can be done in print. For instance, we rely on hacks to clean up the start/end of a paragraph's ascender/descender space for optical alignment. It would be useful to expose some font metrics to CSS to be able to adjust this in a clean way:
h1 {
margin-top: calc(font(--x-height) - font(--ascender-height) );
}Imagine the possibilities with a font function similar to custom properties or environment variables!