No support for Kai and Fangsong generic font families

This issue is applicable to Chinese.

There are many font styles used in Chinese composition, but Song, Kai, Hei, and Fangsong are the most important ones.

The font-family CSS property should support generic family names for these font styles.

More:

• Four frequently-used Typefaces for Chinese Text

The GAP

generic(kai) and generic(fangsong) are not supported by any major browser engine.

css-fonts-4 describes generic(kai) and generic(fangsong) in CSS.

Priority

The Kai and Fangsong generic font families significantly improves the fallback mechanism of Chinese websites and web applications. If the browsers does not support them, the differences expressed by the font styles won't appear (unless the author use web fonts, which is often too large). This was therefore marked as Basic.

Tests & results

Interactive test, font-family:generic(kai) will apply a Kai font in Chinese

Interactive test, font-family:generic(fangsong) will apply a Fangsong font in Chinese

Action taken

Issue, The Cursive = Chinese Kaiti equivalent Closed.

Browser bug reports: Gecko • Blink 1 • Blink 2 • WebKit

Platform Status: Blink

Outcomes

tbd

Start by reading the CSS Fonts 4 generic font-families section and running the two linked interactive tests for Kai and Fangsong. Compare the Gecko, Blink, and WebKit reports to understand the current support gap. Done means the requirement has an agreed outcome and the relevant browser support status is updated.