Re: [css3-font] Extension of font-stretch property

Thomas Phinney wrote:

> My understanding is that because CJK fonts have so many glyphs, for 
>  typefaces with multiple weights, use of axis-based technologies in 
> designing the typefaces is just as common as it is for western fonts, 
> perhaps more so.

Indeed. And as Tim Ahrens has demonstrated*, once you have a weight 
axis, one can algorithmically produce width axis masters of reasonable 
quality -- i.e. they will need manual refinement for best results, but 
will get you a good distance to your goal -- quite easily.

* http://remix-tools.com/addaxis/index.htm

JH