diff --git a/bskyweb/templates/base.html b/bskyweb/templates/base.html
index 43ab379d57..997579717b 100644
--- a/bskyweb/templates/base.html
+++ b/bskyweb/templates/base.html
@@ -50,6 +50,7 @@
       margin: 0px;
       padding: 0px;
       font-family: InterVariable, -apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, 'Segoe UI', Roboto, 'Liberation Sans', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif;
+      font-feature-settings: 'cv05' on, 'calt' off;
       text-rendering: optimizeLegibility;
       /* Platform-specific reset */
       -webkit-overflow-scrolling: touch;
diff --git a/src/alf/fonts.ts b/src/alf/fonts.ts
index 7869167212..536ec7727d 100644
--- a/src/alf/fonts.ts
+++ b/src/alf/fonts.ts
@@ -80,7 +80,9 @@ export function applyFonts(style: TextStyle, fontFamily: 'system' | 'theme') {
      * Disable contextual alternates in Inter
      * {@link https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/CSS/font-variant}
      */
-    style.fontVariant = (style.fontVariant || []).concat('no-contextual')
+    style.fontVariant = (style.fontVariant || [])
+      .concat('no-contextual')
+      .concat('character-variant-5')
   } else {
     // fallback families only supported on web
     if (isWeb) {
diff --git a/web/index.html b/web/index.html
index 8bde07d2b3..fdd7aa95d7 100644
--- a/web/index.html
+++ b/web/index.html
@@ -55,6 +55,7 @@
         margin: 0px;
         padding: 0px;
         font-family: InterVariable, -apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, 'Segoe UI', Roboto, 'Liberation Sans', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif;
+        font-feature-settings: 'cv05' on, 'calt' off;
         text-rendering: optimizeLegibility;
         /* Platform-specific reset */
         -webkit-overflow-scrolling: touch;