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PUBLISHED ON: APRIL 14, 2021

CSS font-optical-sizing property

The font-optical-sizing property in CSS asserts whether text rendering has been optimized for viewing at different sizes or not. Optical sizing gets enabled by default for the fonts that have an optical size variation axis.

The optical size variation axis is represented by opsz in the fpont-variation-settings. This property can be specified as one of the keywords: either none or auto.

Syntax for font-optical-sizing property:

Following is the syntax for the font-optical-sizing property.

font-optical-sizing: auto | none | inherit | initial | unset

Example: CSS font-optical-sizing property

Here in the example below, we are using the font-optical-sizing property with different border styles, colors, and different values. In this case, we have given the font-optical-sizing property value as none.

<!DOCTYPE html>
<html>

<head>
	<title>The font-optical-sizing property in CSS</title>
	<style type="text/css">
		@font-face {
		    src: url('AmstelvarAlpha-VF.ttf');
		    font-family:'Amstelvar';
		    font-style: normal;
		}
		
		p {
		  font-size: 36px;
		  font-family: Amstelvar;
		}
		
		.no-optical-sizing {
		  font-optical-sizing: none;
		}
	</style>
</head>

<body>
	<p class="optical-sizing">This paragraph is optically sized. This is the default across browsers.</p>
	<p class="no-optical-sizing">This paragraph is not optically sized. You should see a difference in supporting browsers.</p>
</body>

</html>

Output:

Example 2: CSS font-optical-sizing property

Here in the example below, we are using the font-optical-sizing property with different border styles, colors and their different values. In this case, we have given the font-optical-sizing property value as auto.

<!DOCTYPE html>
<html>

<head>
	<title>The font-optical-sizing property in CSS</title>
	<style type="text/css">
		@font-face {
		    src: url('AmstelvarAlpha-VF.ttf');
		    font-family:'Amstelvar';
		    font-style: normal;
		}
		
		p {
		  font-size: 36px;
		  font-family: Amstelvar;
		  font-optical-sizing: auto;
		}
		
		.auto-optical-sizing {
		  font-optical-sizing: auto;
		}
		.h1{
			font-optical sizing: auto;
		}
	</style>
</head>

<body>
	<h1> CHAPTER 1 </h1>
	<p class="optical-sizing">This paragraph is optically sized. This is the default across browsers.</p>
	<p class="auto-optical-sizing">This paragraph is not optically sized. You should see a difference in supporting browsers.</p>
</body>

</html>

Output:

Live Example

Here in this live example, you can test the code and execute the example using different values or even edit the code example.

Browser Compatibility

There are many browsers that do not support all the latest CSS properties. Hence, while developing any webpage, if you are using any CSS property you must check the browser compatibility for that CSS property and then use it. It is of immense importance today when there is a large variety of web browsers available.

Name of Browser Background size contain and cover
Chrome 79 79
Edge 17 17
Firefox 62 62
Internet Explorer no no
Opera 66 66
Safari 11 11
Webview Android 79 79
Chrome Android 79 79
Firefox Android 62 62
Opera Android no no
IOS Safari 11 11
Samsung Internet 12.0 12.0

Conclusion

The initial value for the font-optical-sizing property is auto. This property is applicable to all elements and also applicable to the ::first-letter'and ::first-line. It is an inherited property. The computed value for this property is the as specified one. The animation type for this property is discrete.



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