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font-variant

Baseline Widely available

This feature is well established and works across many devices and browser versions. It’s been available across browsers since ⁨July 2015⁩.

The font-variant attribute indicates whether the text is to be rendered using variations of the font's glyphs.

Note: As a presentation attribute, font-variant also has a CSS property counterpart: font-variant. When both are specified, the CSS property takes priority.

You can use this attribute with the following SVG elements:

Examples

Controlling SVG font variations

<svg viewBox="0 0 250 30" xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2000/svg">
  <text y="20" font-variant="normal">Normal text</text>
  <text x="100" y="20" font-variant="small-caps">Small-caps text</text>
</svg>

Usage notes

Value	`normal` \| `none` \| [ `<common-lig-values>` \|\| `<discretionary-lig-values>` \|\| `<historical-lig-values>` \|\| `<contextual-alt-values>` \|\| `stylistic( <feature-value-name> )` \|\| `historical-forms` \|\| `styleset( <feature-value-name># )` \|\| `character-variant( <feature-value-name># )` \|\| `swash( <feature-value-name> )` \|\| `ornaments( <feature-value-name> )` \|\| `annotation( <feature-value-name> )` \|\| [ `small-caps` \| `all-small-caps` \| `petite-caps` \| `all-petite-caps` \| `unicase` \| `titling-caps` ] \|\| `<numeric-figure-values>` \|\| `<numeric-spacing-values>` \|\| `<numeric-fraction-values>` \|\| `ordinal` \|\| `slashed-zero` \|\| `<east-asian-variant-values>` \|\| `<east-asian-width-values>` \|\| `ruby` ]
Default value	`normal`
Animatable	Yes

For a description of the values, please refer to the CSS font-variant property.

Specifications

Specification
CSS Fonts Module Level 4> # font-variant-prop>
Scalable Vector Graphics (SVG) 2> # FontVariantProperty>

Browser compatibility