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I'm finding that the ch unit is a poor unit for doing our measure calculation, since the 0 character on which it's based has significant variance from font to font. Since we're already normalizing our font size in such a way that fonts display with a similar x-height at each grade in our font-size system, we should use the ex unit for a more consistent and reliable output. The ex unit has universal support.
This is also distorting our measure output tokens in the direction of being generally too wide — far outside the 50-75 target character count in our guidance. That said, the guidance is maybe a little bit skewed narrow, as a popular readable site like medium.com has a line length of around 75-78 characters, and we could a bit longer than that for something like a small caption.
I'm also proposing that we add an additional token to accommodate some of gamut we'll lose by concentrating our coverage on the guidance range.
token
desired output
proposed value
current value
current output in Public Sans
1
~50 characters
44ex
40ch
51 characters
2
~66 characters
60ex
60ch
80 characters
3
~72 characters
64ex
66ch
88 characters
4
~78 characters
68ex
72ch
95 characters
5
~86 characters
74ex
77ch
100 characters
6
~96 characters
88ex
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Beta 6
Beta 7
'1'
'1'
'2'
'4'
'3'
'5'
'4'
'6'
'5'
'6'
The text was updated successfully, but these errors were encountered:
I'm finding that the
ch
unit is a poor unit for doing our measure calculation, since the0
character on which it's based has significant variance from font to font. Since we're already normalizing our font size in such a way that fonts display with a similar x-height at each grade in our font-size system, we should use theex
unit for a more consistent and reliable output. Theex
unit has universal support.This is also distorting our measure output tokens in the direction of being generally too wide — far outside the 50-75 target character count in our guidance. That said, the guidance is maybe a little bit skewed narrow, as a popular readable site like medium.com has a line length of around 75-78 characters, and we could a bit longer than that for something like a small caption.
I'm also proposing that we add an additional token to accommodate some of gamut we'll lose by concentrating our coverage on the guidance range.
1
44ex
40ch
2
60ex
60ch
3
64ex
66ch
4
68ex
72ch
5
74ex
77ch
6
88ex
The text was updated successfully, but these errors were encountered: