How to deal with CSS4 font-weight allowing font-weight 1...999?

[davelab6]

How to deal with CSS4 font-weight allowing font-weight 1...999?

Over in google/fonts#20 a Google Fonts user suggested that Google Fonts adopt this, but with CSS4 in mind, it seems fvd wouldn't work well in the CSS4 future.

[bramstein]

@davelab6 Yes, we're slowly moving away from using FVD's at Typekit. The replacement is just straight up font-weight, font-style, and font-stretch.

[davelab6]

Okay, cool, thanks for confirming :)

[quitequinn]

I'm wondering what we should be moving towards. This convention was great for CSS3 but now that we are building for CSS4 it would be helpful to have a convention to lean on. Is the industry relying on name table norms for style selection or is there a collaboratively developed convention that I'm unaware of that deals with optical sizes, 9+ weights, etc.

[quitequinn]

Basically, has a better approach coalesced in the last 4 years than...
font-style=normal&font-weight=425&font-width=511&font-stretch=221

[davelab6]

Width is stretch in CSS. GF uses axis tag codes

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