Baseline Widely available
The unicode-range
CSS descriptor sets the specific range of characters to be used from a font defined using the @font-face
at-rule and made available for use on the current page. If the page doesn't use any character in this range, the font is not downloaded; if it uses at least one, the whole font is downloaded.
/* <unicode-range> values */
unicode-range: U+26; /* single code point */
unicode-range: U+0-7F;
unicode-range: U+0025-00FF; /* code point range */
unicode-range: U+4??; /* wildcard range */
unicode-range: U+0025-00FF, U+4??; /* multiple values */
Values
A single Unicode character code point, for example U+26
.
A range of Unicode code points. So for example, U+0025-00FF
means include all characters in the range U+0025
to U+00FF
.
A range of Unicode code points containing wildcard characters, that is using the '?'
character, so for example U+4??
means include all characters in the range U+400
to U+4FF
.
The purpose of this descriptor is to allow the font resources to be segmented so that a browser only needs to download the font resource needed for the text content of a particular page. For example, a site with many localizations could provide separate font resources for English, Greek and Japanese. For users viewing the English version of a page, the font resources for Greek and Japanese fonts wouldn't need to be downloaded, saving bandwidth.
Formal definition Formal syntax Examples Using a different font for a single characterIn this example, we create a single <div>
element, with a text string that includes an ampersand that we want to style with a different font. To make it obvious, we will use a sans-serif font, Helvetica, for the text, and a serif font, Times New Roman, for the ampersand.
In the CSS we are in effect defining a completely separate @font-face
that only includes a single character in it, meaning that only this character will be styled with this font. We could also have done this by wrapping the ampersand in a <span>
and applying a different font just to that, but that is an extra element and rule set.
@font-face {
font-family: "Ampersand";
src: local("Times New Roman");
unicode-range: U+26;
}
div {
font-size: 4em;
font-family: Ampersand, Helvetica, sans-serif;
}
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