Matt Ryall

Tech & opinion since 2002

New typographic features in Firefox 3

2 July 2008

Firefox 3 bring some impressive new features to text rendering: kerning, ligatures, hinting, and more.

Demonstration of ligatures in a Firefox 3 text box

Two great summaries have been written on the topic in the past few weeks:

Firefox 3: Fonts and text, Stuart Parmenter & Deb Richardson
Kerning and OpenType features in Firefox 3, Ralf Herrmann

Unfortunately, Ralf’s investigation seems to show that some of the functionality is still a bit buggy in Firefox 3 on the Mac – adding discretionary ligatures automatically, and not using context-sensitive glyphs appropriately.

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