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Furifont: How OpenType Embeds Furigana in the Font
Furifont embeds furigana directly in the font using OpenType contextual substitutions and stylistic sets, with no extra HTML or CSS. Anthony Fu’s project shows how a font can resolve, from its own GSUB tables, an annotation that until now depended on external markup. It’s also a reusable example of font engineering for other scripts with phonetic annotation.









