Font Variant Alternates

Utilities for controlling the usage of alternate glyphs.

Default class reference
Class
Properties
historical-forms font-variant-alternates: historical-forms;

Usage

Use the font-variant-alternates utilities to access alternative styles for different characters. These can be applied to blocks of text, in the case of historical forms or stylesets, or to individual characters, as with swash glyphs or character variants.

Historical forms
hist

Historical glyph variants may not be useful in everyday typesetting situations, but can prove useful when referencing the past.

Jesuit

Jesuit

<p class="historical-forms">Jesuit</p>