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moroshko / accessible-colors

Automatically find the closest accessible color combination
http://accessible-colors.com
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Font Weights #64

Open kaylajheffernan opened 8 years ago

kaylajheffernan commented 8 years ago

Would be useful to be able to select light fonts. I'm looking at something that I'm fairly sure is inaccessible on a webpage, but would meet standards if regular font weight.

moroshko commented 8 years ago

@kaylajheffernan Do you have any reference to what is considered to be a "light font"? This spec mentions only the "bold" term.

kaylajheffernan commented 8 years ago

Hey @moroshko, I'm not sure if there are any accessibility guidelines on light fonts yet, but it's a weigh available in some of the newer fonts (Roboto, Helvetica etc.)

For example this is a normal weight font, and it's accessible

normal

This is a light weight font, I don't know if it's accessible

light
moroshko commented 8 years ago

@kaylajheffernan I see what you are saying, but I'm not sure how can we automate determining whether a certain weight is available or not if there is no clear definition/spec for that.

JayHoltslander commented 5 years ago

font-weight: 100 at 13px would be an example that can make a big difference to font-weight: 300; at 18px