How to Integrate Web Font OpenType Features in HTML and CSS

Web Font OpenType Features offer designers the flexibility to enhance their typography with stylistic alternates, swashes, and other advanced font features. Many fonts available from YouWorkForThem come equipped with these rich OpenType features, allowing for creative and unique design possibilities. By integrating these features into your web design, you can enhance the visual appeal and functionality of your text, making it stand out and better convey your brand’s identity.

Step 1: Include the Web Font

First, ensure that the web font files are properly included in your project. When you license web fonts from YouWorkForThem, you will be provided a variety of font file formats : .woff2, .woff, .ttf, .svg. Use the @font-face rule in your CSS to define the font.

Step 2: Using Web Font OpenType Features in CSS

To use OpenType features like alternates, you can use the font-feature-settings property in your website’s CSS. Here are some common features you might want to enable:

• Stylistic Alternates (salt): Enables stylistic alternates.
• Contextual Alternates (calt): Enables contextual alternates.
• Swashes (swsh): Enables swashes.

For example, to enable stylistic alternates and swashes, you would do the following:

Advanced: Using Feature Tags in CSS

If the font includes specific named features (e.g., ss01 for Stylistic Set 1), you can enable these using their feature tags:

Additional Information on Web Font OpenType Features

For more detailed information on how to use OpenType features in CSS, you can refer to this comprehensive guide on MDN: MDN OpenType Fonts Guide.