I’m excited to see more complete support for Open Type Font Features landing in browsers.
Safari 16.2 added function values for font-variant-alternates: annotation(), character-variant(), ornaments(), styleset(), stylistic(), swash(), along with the associated @font-feature-values at-rules.
Chrome is currently working on overall support for font-variant-alternates.
Here’s a great demo of what this makes possible — the visual differences in fonts: https://roettsch.es/montecarlo.html
With and without.
@jensimmons
As a developer, what I really miss in Chrome's support of this feature (unless I am missing something) is discoverability of font features in devtools. It would be really useful to be able to see which features are available and the effect they have. font-variant-alternates will be severely underused otherwise, I am afraid.
@jgg @jensimmons very nice. Are other font-face at rules like ascent-override in the pipeline?