What's the current state of advanced typographic features in Webkit?
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A while ago (5 years?) Webkit did not support advanced opentype kerning and features and such. Is this still true? Is there any way to turn these on if they're off by default? Asking as a user, not as a developer.
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Answer:
The closest thing is going to be the optimizeLegability flag. MDN has pretty good docs on this: https://developer.mozilla.org/en/CSS/text-rendering
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Other answers
On Safari 7, it looks like ligatures and kerning are on by default at any size. On Chrome they are off by default. Websites can override this in either case. Firefox chooses based on the font size (if it's over 20px, then it uses ligatures and kerning). As for other opentype features, developers can turn them on or off in some browsers with the CSS rule font-feature-settings, but users can't really do anything in this area. If you want to see what another browser does, I made this simple test page: http://codepen.io/calebegg/full/cbnHm
Caleb Eggensperger
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