Alternate
Also called Stylistic alternate
A second drawing of a character, shipped in the same font and swapped in deliberately.
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| measured on this shelf, and the measurement is a nil | no file on the shelf carries salt or ss01..ss20, because none of the 84 carries a GSUB table | read off all 84 files on the shelf with fontTools |
| so nothing on a page of ours can ask for it | setting an alternate glyph through CSS or through the font stack does nothing on any face this house ships | there is no GSUB table in ANY of the 84 files, so the OpenType feature that would carry this cannot be reached at all: it is absent, not merely unused |
| what this entry therefore describes | the thing itself, not our version of it | UNMEASURED against our own work, and said so rather than illustrated with a face that has none |