

A common example would be fi, with the arch of the f merging with the i's dot and the x-line serifs becoming one. I’ll cover later on how the browser handles those cases.įonts can also transform their characters on a contextual basis with ligatures. If you’re a non-English speaker and your language uses its own letters, you’ll most certainly have been in the situation of having found a nice font, but unable to use it, because there’s no ß inside. We mostly work with subsets and accept the constraints that come with that.
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Partly because font files would become bloated, partly because it’s a huge amount of work, next to no font supports the full Unicode set. or whatever else you can find in the Unicode table.Those graphics get assigned to addresses, which represent specific glyphs. That means they’re scalable, so you don’t need a different set of graphics for different sizes. Let’s start at the beginning: What are fonts?Ī font file is a collection of vector-based graphics. use font-display: fallback or optional.

