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OpenType

OpenType is a font technology and associated font format, developed by Microsoft and Adobe in the 1990s, which allows the end user to access additional features in a font.

A montage of four OpenType features—alternates, fractions, small caps, and ligatures—showing each in deactivated and activated states.

OpenType became widely adopted on the web around 2010–2015, bringing previously print-specific features such as kerning, ligatures, numerals, etc. to websites.

OpenType was recently expanded to allow for variable fonts, whose proper term is OpenType Font Variations.

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