font-variant

The font-variant CSS shorthand property allows you to set all the font variants for a font.

You can also set the <font-variant-css2> values of font-variant defined in CSS Level 2.1, (that is, normal or small-caps), by using the {{cssxref("font")}} shorthand.

{{InteractiveExample("CSS Demo: font-variant")}}

font-variant: normal;

font-variant: no-common-ligatures proportional-nums;

font-variant: common-ligatures tabular-nums;

font-variant: small-caps slashed-zero;

<section id="default-example">
  <div id="example-element">
    <p>Difficult waffles</p>
    <table>
      <tbody>
        <tr>
          <td><span class="tabular">0O</span></td>
        </tr>
        <tr>
          <td><span class="tabular">3.14</span></td>
        </tr>
        <tr>
          <td><span class="tabular">2.71</span></td>
        </tr>
      </tbody>
    </table>
  </div>
</section>

@font-face {
  font-family: "Fira Sans";
  src:
    local("FiraSans-Regular"),
    url("/shared-assets/fonts/FiraSans-Regular.woff2") format("woff2");
  font-weight: normal;
  font-style: normal;
}

section {
  font-family: "Fira Sans", sans-serif;
  margin-top: 10px;
  font-size: 1.5em;
}

#example-element table {
  margin-left: auto;
  margin-right: auto;
}

.tabular {
  border: 1px solid;
}

Constituent properties

This property is a shorthand for the following CSS properties:

• {{cssxref("font-variant-alternates")}}
• {{cssxref("font-variant-caps")}}
• {{cssxref("font-variant-east-asian")}}
• {{cssxref("font-variant-emoji")}}
• {{cssxref("font-variant-ligatures")}}
• {{cssxref("font-variant-numeric")}}
• {{cssxref("font-variant-position")}}

Syntax

font-variant: small-caps;
font-variant: common-ligatures small-caps;

/* Global values */
font-variant: inherit;
font-variant: initial;
font-variant: revert;
font-variant: revert-layer;
font-variant: unset;

Values

• normal

  • : Specifies a normal font face. Each longhand property has an initial value of normal.

• none

  • : Sets the value of the {{cssxref("font-variant-ligatures")}} as none and the values of the other longhand properties as normal, their initial value.

• <common-lig-values>, <discretionary-lig-values>, <historical-lig-values>, <contextual-alt-values>

  • : Specifies the keywords related to the {{cssxref("font-variant-ligatures")}} longhand property. The possible values are common-ligatures, no-common-ligatures, discretionary-ligatures, no-discretionary-ligatures, historical-ligatures, no-historical-ligatures, contextual, and no-contextual.

• stylistic(), historical-forms, styleset(), character-variant(), swash(), ornaments(), annotation()

  • : Specifies the keywords and functions related to the {{cssxref("font-variant-ligatures")}} longhand property.

• small-caps, all-small-caps, petite-caps, all-petite-caps, unicase, titling-caps

  • : Specifies the keywords and functions related to the {{cssxref("font-variant-caps")}} longhand property. The small-caps value is the only non-normal font variant valid within the {{cssxref("font")}} shorthand property.

• <numeric-figure-values>, <numeric-spacing-values>, <numeric-fraction-values>, ordinal, slashed-zero

  • : Specifies the keywords related to the {{cssxref("font-variant-numeric")}} longhand property. The possible values are lining-nums, oldstyle-nums, proportional-nums, tabular-nums, diagonal-fractions, stacked-fractions, ordinal, and slashed-zero.

• <east-asian-variant-values>, <east-asian-width-values>, ruby

  • : Specifies the keywords related to the {{cssxref("font-variant-east-asian")}} longhand property. The possible values are jis78, jis83, jis90, jis04, simplified, traditional, full-width, proportional-width, and ruby.

• sub, super

  • : Specifies the keywords and functions related to the {{cssxref("font-variant-position")}} longhand property.

• text, emoji, unicode

  • : Specifies the keywords and functions related to the {{cssxref("font-variant-emoji")}} longhand property.

Formal definition

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Formal syntax

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Examples

Setting the small-caps font variant

HTML

<p class="normal">Firefox rocks!</p>
<p class="small">Firefox rocks!</p>

CSS

p.normal {
  font-variant: normal;
}
p.small {
  font-variant: small-caps;
}

Result

{{ EmbedLiveSample('Setting the small-caps font variant') }}

Specifications

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Browser compatibility

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See also

• {{cssxref("text-transform")}}
• {{cssxref("text-combine-upright")}}
• {{cssxref("text-orientation")}}
• SVG {{SVGAttr("font-variant")}} attribute