It takes as much energy to wish as it does to plan. — Eleanor Roosevelt
I’m very glad a guide for these features exists because we already know there are so many weird things that variable fonts can do — well done, Tunghsiao Liu!
There are quite a few possible values for font-feature-settings, like, ya know:
aalt, swsh, cswh, calt, hist, hlig, locl, rand, nalt, cv01-cv99, salt, subs, sups, titl, rvrn, liga, dlig, size, ornm, … Read article “The Complete CSS Demo for OpenType Features”
Using custom fonts is getting increasingly easier. We’ll cover the basics of usage here and get into the more in-depth features that are helpful for developers who want to level up and aim to perfect advanced concepts, like loading font files.
The font-variant-numeric property in CSS supports the OpenType font format by specifying which numeric glyphs to use on a class, including variations for fractions, ordinal markers and styled variations among others.… Read article “font-variant-numeric”
Over on the Typekit Blog, Tim Brown has written about an exciting development in the world of web fonts: an improvement to the OpenType font file specification.
This might not sound all that exciting at first, but “variable fonts” allows designers and developers to embed a single font file into a webpage and then interpolate the various widths and weights we need from a single file. That means smaller files, fewer requests, and more flexibility for designers. However, this … Read article ““OpenType Variations Fonts””
