Bug 454806 - Add support for switching font variation in Text Editor
Summary: Add support for switching font variation in Text Editor
Status: REPORTED
Alias: None
Product: krita
Classification: Applications
Component: Tool/Text (show other bugs)
Version: 5.0.6
Platform: Microsoft Windows Microsoft Windows
: NOR wishlist
Target Milestone: ---
Assignee: Krita Bugs
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Reported: 2022-06-03 15:46 UTC by Volga
Modified: 2022-08-05 13:37 UTC (History)
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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)

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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/