The font-size-adjust attribute allows authors to specify an aspect value for an element that will preserve the x-height of the first choice font in a substitute font.
Note: As a presentation attribute, font-size-adjust can be used as a CSS property. See the CSS font-size-adjust property for more information.
You can use this attribute with the following SVG elements:
<svgwidth="600"height="80"viewBox="0 0 500 80"xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2000/svg"><texty="20"font-family="Times, serif"font-size="10px">
This text uses the Times font (10px), which is hard to read in small sizes.
</text><texty="40"font-family="Verdana, sans-serif"font-size="10px">
This text uses the Verdana font (10px), which has relatively large lowercase
letters.
</text><texty="60"font-family="Times, serif"font-size="10px"font-size-adjust="0.58">
This is the 10px Times, but now adjusted to the same aspect ratio as the
Verdana.
</text></svg>
Choose the size of the font so that its lowercase letters (as determined by the x-height of the font) are the specified number times the font-size.
The number specified should generally be the aspect ratio (ratio of x-height to font size) of the first choice font-family. This means that the first-choice font, when available, will appear the same size in browsers, whether or not they support font-size-adjust.