The Cascade is a blog about the past, present, and future of CSS.

Howdy—Robin Rendle here.

This blog keeps me in the loop with everything that’s possible with CSS lately but it’s also a reminder to celebrate the people doing the hard work building stuff for the web.

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Wakamai Fondue

This is your daily reminder that Wakamai Fondue is an invaluable resource when dealing with font files. A lot of the time I’ll buy a font and the PDF specimen won’t tell me how to use a feature with CSS! It’s annoying!

Thankfully the open beta has a host of improvements when it comes to variable fonts too, so first you upload your font and then tweak the optical size, weight, width, or turn on stylistic sets, fractions, and countless other OpenType goodies. It’ll then spit out the CSS that you need, like this:

.element {
  font-feature-settings: "c2sc" 1, "dnom" 1, "frac" 1, "lnum" 1, "smcp" 1, "ss01" 1, "ss03" 1, "ss05" 1;
  font-variation-settings: "opsz" 48, "wght" 300, "wdth" 100, "ital" 1;
}