Conquer Variable Web Typography

Conquer Variable Web Typography Venn by Dalton Maag

86/60 Oliver Schöndorfer ! glyphe

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18 font files 632 KB for web fonts only ! glyphe

1 font file 56 KB overall size ! glyphe

How to get started with variable fonts 1. What are variable fonts? 2. Using variable fonts on the web 3. Good times 4. Hard times 5. Getting started ! glyphe

What are variable fonts? Voto Serif by Google

Aa Aa Aa Aa Aa Light Regular Medium Bold X-Bold ! glyphe

Aa Aa Aa Aa Aa Variable font file ! glyphe

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Aa Aa Aa Aa Aa Interpolation ! glyphe

Named instances Aa Light Aa Regular Aa Medium Aa Bold Aa X-Bold Optional designs in between ! glyphe

Aa Aa Aa Aa Aa weight axis ! glyphe

width axis Aa Aa Aa Aa Aa Aa Aa Aa Aa ! glyphe

width axis Aa Aa Aa Aa Aa Aa Aa Aa Aa Aa Aa Aa Aa Aa Aa Aa Aa Aa Aa Aa Aa Aa Aa Aa Aa weight axis ! glyphe

Using variable fonts on the web Output Sans by DJR

70 % Global support  " MacOS 10.13 iOS 11.2 Windows 10 $ % & ' Safari 11 Chrome 62 Edge 17 Firefox 62 ! glyphe

Discover new variable fonts try them out, see where to get them v-fonts.com ! glyphe

@font-face { Will become the standard font-family: 'Venn'; src: url('Venn.woff2') format('woff2-variations'), url('Venn.woff2') format('woff2'); } Fallback for the others ! glyphe

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See available axes and ranges axis-praxis.org ! glyphe

5 wght wdth ital slnt opsz registered axes ! glyphe

Source Serif Variable by Adobe ! glyphe

font-weight: 327; font-variation-settings: "wght" 327; Source Serif Variable by Adobe ! glyphe

font-weight: 327; High-level property will become standard with CSS 4 Font Module font-variation-settings: "wght" 327; Low-level property supported by all participating browsers now ! glyphe

Venn by Dalton Maag ! glyphe

font-stretch: 78%; font-variation-settings: "wdth" 78; Venn by Dalton Maag ! glyphe

Output Sans by David Jonathan Ross ! glyphe

font-style: oblique 10deg; font-variation-settings: "slnt" 10; Output Sans by David Jonathan Ross ! glyphe

Optical Sizing Axis Voto Serif by Google ! glyphe

Low contrast for small sizes 12px Voto Serif by Google High contrast for large sizes 24px 48px 72px ! glyphe

font-optical-sizing: auto; font-variation-settings: "opsz" 72; Voto Serif by Google ! glyphe

Decovar by FontBureau ! glyphe

font-variation-settings: "TRMC" 1000, "SKLA" 400, Decovar by FontBureau "SKLB" 800, … ! glyphe

Golden times Lab DJR by DJR

sz-magazin.sueddeutsche.de ! glyphe

sz-magazin.sueddeutsche.de 23 KB PT Serif Regular 23 KB PT Serif Bold 24 KB PT Serif Italic 36 KB Work Sans Regular 39 KB Work Sans Medium 39 KB Work Sans SemiBold 52 KB Work Sans Bold 166 KB ! glyphe

Work Sans Regular Work Sans Medium Work Sans SemiBold 166 KB Work Sans Bold Work Sans Variabel? sz-magazin.sueddeutsche.de ~80 KB ! glyphe

dstype.com/variable-fonts ! glyphe

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On narrow screens condensed font to fit more characters into one line ! glyphe

On wide screens expanded font ! glyphe

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% Chrome h1 { font-size: 20vmax; } h2 { font-size: 11vmax; } h3 { font-size: 5vmax; } Output Sans Hairline by DJR ! glyphe

Output Sans Hairline by DJR ! glyphe

$ Safari font-optical-sizing: auto; supported by default Output Sans Hairline by DJR ! glyphe

Output Sans Hairline by DJR ! glyphe

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Hard times Amstelvar by David Berlow

Overchoice Many options make it harder and require much more knowledge ! glyphe

90 named instances for Acumin Variable in Photoshop ! glyphe

Static Fonts Variable Font Aa Aa Aa Aa 90 KB 110 KB Regular 30 KB Italic 30 KB Bold 30 KB Roman 110 KB ! glyphe

Static Fonts Variable Font Aa Aa Aa Aa Aa 90 KB 220 KB Regular 30 KB Italic 30 KB Bold 30 KB Roman 110 KB Italic 110 KB ! glyphe

Single font Aa € 30–60 Font family Aa Aa Aa Aa Aa Aa Aa Aa Aa Aa € 300–700 ! glyphe

Single font Aa € 30–60 Variable font Aa Roman 110 KB € ? Font family Aa Aa Aa Aa Aa Aa Aa Aa Aa Aa € 300–700 ! glyphe

Get Started Cheee by OHNO

Open Source github.com/LettError/mutatorSans ! glyphe

Add on black-foundry.com/vesterbro ! glyphe

Retail cjtype.com/dunbar/variablefonts/info.html ! glyphe

Subscription Model? blog.typekit.com/variable-font-technology-from-adobe ! glyphe

Font Playground at Type Detail play.typedetail.com ! glyphe

Firefox Nightly DevTools ! glyphe

Summing up • One font file with many possible styles • Fine graded influence for better typography – when you know what you’re doing • Improvements by default with optical-sizing • Performance gain under certain conditions ! glyphe

Resources • • • • • • • For new releases v-fonts.com & twitter.com/variablefonts Testing variable fonts axis-praxis.org & play.typedetail.com List of available variable Fonts by Indra Kupferschmid: bit.ly/2MC8QV9 How to start with variable fonts on the web by me: bit.ly/2NgHQId Getting started with variable fonts by Richard Rutter: bit.ly/2BwVViT Use variable fonts in the real world by Richard Rutter: bit.ly/2FLvtRc TYPO Labs 2018 various talks: typotalks.com/labs ! glyphe

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Slides on noti.st/glyphe Oliver Schöndorfer Gingham by Christoph Koeberlin ! glyphe 8660.at