CR: CSS Fonts Module Level 3

CSS Fonts Module Level 3

https://www.w3.org/TR/2018/CR-css-fonts-3-20180315/

feedback due by: 2018-04-15

Abstract


This CSS3 module describes how font properties are specified and how font resources are loaded dynamically. The contents of this specification are a consolidation of content previously divided into CSS3 Fonts and CSS3 Web Fonts modules. The description of font load events was moved into the CSS Font Loading module.

Status of the Document


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This document is governed by the 1 February 2018 W3C Process Document.

See the section CR Exit Criteria for details on advancing this specification to W3C Recommendation. The specification will remain Candidate Recommendation at least until 15 April 2018. A test suite and implementation report are under development. Features at risk

The following features are at risk; if interoperable implementations are not found, they may be removed to advance the other features in this specification to Proposed Recommendation: fallback handling for text decoration in superscript/subscript variant glyphs (‘font-variant-position’) The font specific functions accepted by ‘font-variant-alternates’ and ‘font-variant’. This includes the entire @font-feature-values at-rule, as well as the following functions: stylistic() styleset() character-variant() swash() ornaments() annotation() Synthesis of the ‘font-variant-position’ property