Sections such as Font Variations, Font Rendering Controls, Color Font Support, Basic Font Properties and Font Resources will contain brand-new items many developers will find useful. Parts of level 3 that become standardized will be ported into level 4, but level 4 will also include its own unique additions. Now that we understand the specification stages let’s dive into the guts of level 4 and bring to light some of the known and documented features new to this module. Recommends wide deployment of specification guidelines. W3C Recommendation (REC): Receives endorsement from W3C Members and the Director.

Proposed Recommendation (PR): A mature technical report sent to the W3C Advisory Committee for final endorsement.Signals to the wider community that it’s time to carry out a final review. Candidate Recommendation (CR): Widely reviewed and ready for implementation.Does not represent a consensus of the Working Group nor imply any endorsement by W3C. Working Draft (WD): Published for review by the community, including W3C Members, the public, and other technical organizations.If you’re in need of a reminder regarding the order of W3C specification stages, let’s take a moment to review them: Looking ahead we have level 4 a spec that has been resting at “Working Draft” since July 2017.

On one side we have level 3 a spec that has been at “Candidate Recommendation” since October 2013. The adventure starts now!Ĭurrently we sit between two levels of specs. This article won’t uncover every last crumb of level 4, but will highlight the interesting parts still in their infancy. Level 4 of the CSS Fonts Module outlines more intriguing options you will love, including some exciting properties such as font-min/max-size. With so many options available today, we as have plenty of tricks up our sleeves in order to serve and style custom fonts. Web fonts helped to breathe life into designs, helping us avoid the system defaults so widely used during the early days of web design.

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