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font-variant-east-asian

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The font-variant-east-asian CSS property controls the use of alternate glyphs for East Asian scripts, like Japanese and Chinese.

Values: This property is specified either as normal or ruby or as a space-separated list of the following values:

Values: normal This keyword leads to the deactivation of the use of such alternate glyphs. ruby This keyword forces the use of special glyphs for ruby characters. As these are usually smaller, font creators often designs specific forms, usually slightly bolder to improve the contrast. This keyword corresponds to the OpenType values ruby. <east-asian-variant-values> These values specify a set of logographic glyph variants which should be used for display. Possible values are:

Syntax example: font-variant-east-asian: normal;

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