Font variants
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.
¶Examples
¶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>