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Add Google Fonts support for selecting alternate styles for font families #840

Open postmastersteve opened 6 years ago

postmastersteve commented 6 years ago

Currently we allow for the 'regular' style of a font, and then offer options for bold, italic, etc. But some font families are available in multiple styles, such as "thin" or "light" or others:

https://fonts.google.com/specimen/Josefin+Sans?selection.family=Josefin+Sans

In this example, these correspond to the font-weight attribute values of 100, 200, etc. whereas we only provide the standard 400 for "regular" and 700 for "bold" - users have no option to chose the other font-weight values.

postmastersteve commented 6 years ago

+1 Paul Jayaraj ticket 175480

lalunecreative commented 6 years ago

I have no idea why this doesn't have a million +1's yet.

lalunecreative commented 6 years ago

Need this for 5k screens. Some fonts that have weights are intended for higher resolution screens.

Take in point Monsterrat. Monsterrat now has several weights and variations.

On a 5k screen, the old "Monsterrat" is actually now displaying as the new "monsterrat regular" weight, which is super thin. On a NON 5k screen, it looks like what the new "Monsterrat Semi Bold" looks like.

It bothers me enough to say that Monsterrat is no longer the font I intended to use on designs/sites and that we're updating them to Monsterrat Semi Bold instead using the built in woff setting. This is so that they look as intended across screens.

So far we haven't found any other fonts that have this issue where they look different on different screens.

benjamintennant commented 6 years ago

+1 AnneMarie Simmons ticket 180310