Introducing OpenType Font Variations (aka ‘variable fonts’)Īs long as I’ve used digital fonts, I’ve had to install separate files for every width, weight, or variant that I want to use. Three years ago, an evolution of the OpenType font format was introduced that changes things in some really remarkable ways. ![]() While good type and typography can bring huge benefits to design, readability, and overall experience-include too many fonts and you negatively impact performance and by extension, user experience. And while we’ve had the ability to that now for ten years, we’ve always been constrained by balancing the number of fonts we want to use with the amount of data to be downloaded by the viewer. ![]() Typography has always been a keen interest of mine, long before we were able to use fonts on the web. Everything you thought you knew about fonts just changed (for the better).
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