Fonts and Typography OpenType Features and Variable Fonts

Question 1

What is an OpenType font format?

Accepted Answer

A cross-platform font format supporting advanced typographic features and large character sets

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A font format exclusive to Adobe software

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A format for black-and-white bitmap fonts only

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A format limited to Latin characters

Question 2

What OpenType feature enables automatic substitution of standard letter pairs with combined ligature glyphs?

Accepted Answer

liga (Standard Ligatures)

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kern (Kerning)

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smcp (Small Caps)

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onum (Old-style Numerals)

Question 3

What does the OpenType 'smcp' feature do?

Accepted Answer

Substitutes lowercase letters with small capital versions

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Applies subscript positioning to numbers

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Increases tracking uniformly

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Changes the font to a condensed variant

Question 4

What are 'variable font axes' in OpenType variable fonts?

Accepted Answer

Dimensions of variation like weight, width, or optical size that can be adjusted continuously

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The X and Y grid alignment of font glyphs

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The baseline position of a font

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The number of supported scripts in a font

Question 5

Which CSS property is used to control variable font axes?

Accepted Answer

font-variation-settings

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font-feature-settings

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font-display

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font-variant

Question 6

What is the 'opsz' axis in a variable font?

Accepted Answer

Optical size — adjusts letterform details optimized for different sizes

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Open spacing — controls letter spacing

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Oblique slant — controls italic angle

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Old-style — switches to old-style numerals