Modern Fonts: The Hidden Potential of Web Typography Abstract

I bet you’re underusing your fonts, and you may not even realise it. We use web fonts every day, but often treat them as simple assets to load. In reality, modern CSS provides powerful and well-supported tools to control metrics, fallbacks, text rendering and readability. At the same time, it’s important to understand what fonts actually contain (or don’t): from language support and OpenType features to the axes of variable fonts and the palettes of colour fonts. A look at recent techniques at the intersection of CSS and typography to improve layout stability, reading experience and performance, and to build stronger, more effective interfaces.