Bug 454806

Summary:	Add support for switching font variation in Text Editor
Product:	[Applications] krita	Reporter:	Volga <shanshandehongxing>
Component:	Tool/Text	Assignee:	Krita Bugs <krita-bugs-null>
Status:	REPORTED ---
Severity:	wishlist	CC:	halla
Priority:	NOR
Version First Reported In:	5.0.6
Target Milestone:	---
Platform:	Microsoft Windows
OS:	Microsoft Windows
Latest Commit:		Version Fixed/Implemented In:
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Description Volga 2022-06-03 15:46:37 UTC

SUMMARY
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In recent times, some fonts added font variations to allow to switch font weight, width, oblique angle, optical size, and so on. With this support it’s possible to allow designers to make use of them for texts if they are using variable fonts.

CSS also have font-variation-settings property for this.

STEPS TO REPRODUCE
(No way to reproduce, Krita have no interfaces for this)

OBSERVED RESULT
N/A

EXPECTED RESULT
N/A

SOFTWARE/OS VERSIONS
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ADDITIONAL INFORMATION
Documentations at MDN Web Docs:
https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/CSS/CSS_Fonts/Variable_Fonts_Guide

Comment 1 Halla Rempt 2022-06-03 15:49:27 UTC

Feature requests should be marked as "wishlist", not "normal", and please also read https://docs.krita.org/en/untranslatable_pages/new_features.html before flooding us with things-to-do.

Comment 2 Volga 2022-08-05 13:37:19 UTC

Inkscape is already got support for font variation from 1.0 release.
https://inkscape.org/news/2020/05/04/introducing-inkscape-10/