Is there such a thing as min-font-size and max-fon

Question

I'm trying to make a font in a div responsive to the browser window. So far, it has worked perfectly, but the parent div has a max-width of 525px. Resizing the browser further will not make the font stop resizing. This has made me wonder if there is such a thing as min-font-size or max-font-size, and if such a thing does not exist, if there is a way to achieve something similar.

I thought that using percentages at font-size would work, but the bit of text won't scale accordingly to the parent div. Here's what I have:

The CSS for the parent div:

.textField{
    background-color:rgba(88, 88, 88, 0.33);

    width:40%;
    height:450px;

    min-width:200px;
    max-width:525px;

    z-index:2;
}

The CSS for the piece of text in question:

.subText{
    position:relative;
    top:-55px;
    left:15px;

    font-family:"news_gothic";
    font-size:1.3vw;
    font-size-adjust:auto;

    width:90%;

    color:white;

    z-index:1;
}

I have searched for quite a while on the internet, but to no avail.

Answer 1

This is actually being proposed in CSS4

Working draft at the W3C

Quote:

These two properties allow a website or user to require an element’s font size to be clamped within the range supplied with these two properties. If the computed value font-size is outside the bounds created by font-min-size and font-max-size, the use value of font-size is clamped to the values specified in these two properties.

This would actually work as following:

.element {
    font-min-size: 10px;
    font-max-size: 18px;
    font-size: 5vw; // viewport-relative units are responsive.
}

This would literally mean, the font size will be 5% of the viewport's width, but never smaller than 10 pixels, and never larger than 18 pixels.

Unfortunately, this feature isn't implemented anywhere yet, (not even on caniuse.com).

Answer 2

I got some smooth results with these. It flows smoothly between the 3 width ranges, like a continuous piecewise function.

@media screen and (min-width: 581px) and (max-width: 1760px){
    #expandingHeader {
        line-height:5.2vw;
        font-size: 5.99vw;
    }
    #tagLine {
        letter-spacing: .15vw;
        font-size: 1.7vw;
        line-height:1.0vw;
    }
}

@media screen and (min-width: 1761px){
    #expandingHeader {
        line-height:.9em;
        font-size: 7.03em;

    }
    #tagLine {
        letter-spacing: .15vw;
        font-size: 1.7vw;
        line-height:1.0vw;
    }
}

@media screen and (max-width: 580px){
    #expandingHeader {
        line-height:.9em;
        font-size: 2.3em;
    }
    #tagLine {
        letter-spacing: .1em;
        font-size: .65em;
        line-height: .10em;
    }
}

Answer 3

Yes, there seems some restrictions by some browser in SVG. The developertool restrict it to 8000px; The following dynamically generated Chart fails for example in Chrome.

Try http://www.xn--ffffdelei-n2a.de/2018/test-von-svt/

<svg id="diagrammChart"
     width="100%"
     height="100%"
     viewBox="-400000 0 1000000 550000"
     font-size="27559"
     overflow="hidden"
     preserveAspectRatio="xMidYMid meet"
>
    <g class="hover-check">
        <text class="hover-toggle" x="-16800" y="36857.506818182" opacity="1" height="24390.997159091" width="953959" font-size="27559">
            <set attributeName="opacity" to="1" begin="ExampShow56TestBarRect1.touchstart"
                 end="ExampShow56TestBarRect1.touchend">
            </set>
            <set attributeName="opacity" to="1" begin="ExampShow56TestBarRect1.mouseover"
                 end="ExampShow56TestBarRect1.mouseout">
            </set>
            Heinz: -16800
        </text>
        <rect class="hover-rect" x="-16800" y="12466.509659091" width="16800" height="24390.997159091" fill="darkred">
            <set attributeName="opacity" to="0.1" begin="ExampShow56TestBarRect1.mouseover"
                 end="ExampShow56TestBarRect1.mouseout">
            </set>
            <set attributeName="opacity" to="0.1" begin="ExampShow56TestBarRect1.touchstart"
                 end="ExampShow56TestBarRect1.touchend">
            </set>
        </rect>
        <rect id="ExampShow56TestBarRect1" x="-384261" y="0" width="953959" height="48781.994318182"
              opacity="0">
        </rect>

    </g>
</svg>