<!doctype html> <html lang="en"> <meta charset="utf-8"> <title>CSS Writing Mode test reference</title> <link rel="author" title="Florian Rivoal" href="https://florian.rivoal.net/"> <meta flags="ahem"> <link rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" href="/fonts/ahem.css" /> <style> div { font: 50px / 50px ahem; color: green; max-height: 100px; writing-mode: vertical-rl; /* Doing this with a horizontal div and max-width ought to result in the same 100x100 green square, but font rasterisation may (and in practice does) result in different aliasing artifacts. Therefore I am using the same writing mode as the test, to make sure we get identically sharp/fuzzy edges on the same sides. */ } </style> <p>There should be a <strong>green square</strong> and <strong>no red</strong>. <div>xx xx</div> </body> </html>