Facts about figures: numeric styles with OpenType features
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6 min readJun 18, 2019
Over the past few months we’ve looked at a lot of different typographic techniques, approaches, and technologies. Before we get into the next big technical series (it’s high time we talk about font loading performance and management), I wanted to dial the focus back down into some finer details. Specifically I want to talk about OpenType features — but that can be a really big topic. So I want to start off right, and go by the numbers.
No, really: we’re going to talk about numbers.