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Should `font-variant: none` be producing `font-feature-settings:"kern" off`?

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Difficulty
2/5
Estimated time
1-3 hours
Newbie friendliness
48/100
Issue type
Bug
Clarity
Mostly clear
Activity status
Stale
Tech stack
css, javascript
Domain
frontend

Research direction

Start by locating the fontVariantProperties object mentioned in the issue and inspect how font-variant values are transformed into font-feature-settings. Compare the current output for font-variant: none with the proposed normal output, then verify the change against any existing transformation tests; done means the output matches the intended CSS behavior.

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Description

I can't see any mention of kerning on https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/CSS/font-variant: would it be more accurate to set font-feature-settings to normal instead? I've done a fix locally (just adding none: "normal" to the font-variant object in fontVariantProperties), but thought I'd check before raising a PR.

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JavaScript
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