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font-variant-alternates

Summary

Fonts can provide alternate glyphs in addition to default glyph for a character. This property provides control over the selection of these alternate glyphs.

Overview table

Initial value
normal
Applies to
all
Inherited
Yes
Media
visual
Computed value
as specified
Animatable
No
CSS Object Model Property
font
Percentages
N/A

Syntax

  • font-variant-alternates: normal
  • font-variant-alternates: stylistic(<feature-value-name>)

Values

normal
None of the feature glyphs are enabled.
stylistic(<feature-value-name>)
historical-forms

Enables display of historical forms