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New gfk content for q1 (#4398)
* 1st commit: all content, basic formatting, svg links

This is the new Q1 content. Almost all formatting is needed. Excerpts are all missing. There’s absolutely no “related” metadata yet. No alt text, either. But images are all in, renamed to `thumbnail.svg` where appropriate, and structurally everything is there.

* Testing link format

* Adding all CSS v2 API links for axis defs

* Testing Markdown-format tables for axis steps

* Adding 2 gloss links to all axis defs’ opening para

* More links in intro paras

* Inserted all link (blank) into all gloss. terms

Almost all of these links need the URLs added later, but at least they’re now marked up to resemble anything that was underlined in the Google Docs.

* Inserted all (blank) links in articles

Also formatted most of the big tables in new Markdown table format

* Gloss. excerpt test

* Excerpts for all axis definitions

* Remaining (non-axis) glossary excerpts

* Renaming 1 illo per article to `thumbnail`

* Updating illo filename in content to reflect `thumbnail` name change

* Adding prev/next URLs for all new articles

* Captions for all articles

Some still need font credits adding

* Alt text for `a_checklist_for_choosing_type`

* Alt text for `language_support_in_fonts`

* Alt text for `the_foundations_of_web_typography`

* Alt text for `an_overview_of_latin_type_anatomy`

Only a small change, as most alt text was already present for this one.

* Illo alt text for all axis definitions in Glossary

(And  table formatting, too.)

* Updated illos for `cursive_axis` & `wonky_axis`

* Remaining illo alt text for non-axis-related Glossary terms

* Added all related gloss. terms to new articles

* Added all related articles to gloss. terms

* First round of actual URLs on new Gloss. terms

* Actual URLs in all remaining Gloss. terms

* All real URLs for all new articles

And improved checklist formatting

* New Thai & Devanagari illos

Hopefully the final versions

* OG excerpts for all 4 new articles

* New illo as per Dave’s rec + TP copy tweak + illo filenames

* Article ordering within each `module.textproto` file

* Update prev/next for existing articles to reflect new Q1 content
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Slant (slnt in CSS) is an axis found in some variable fonts. It controls the font files slant parameter for oblique styles.

The Google Fonts CSS v2 API defines the axis as:

| Default: 0 | Min: -90 | Max: 90 | Step: 1 |

Two side-by-side type specimens of the word phrase “lean-to”, each shown with a variable axis represented beneath as a horizontal slider. The first specimen, with the slider most of the way to the right to represent a higher value on the axis, shows upright forms. The second specimen, with the slider more to the left to represent a low-to-mid value on the axis, shows more slanted forms.

Oblique characters follow the structure of the upright styles, while italics have a different structure, typically informed by cursive writing. Obliques are not necessarily merely digitally slanted—optical corrections are often made to avoid distortions and an incorrect distribution of weight. Generally, obliques are less common than italics.

For variable fonts, the italic axis and the slant axis are very closely related. For detailed descriptions on how to use both, please see our “Styling type on the web with variable fonts” article.