Conquer Variable Web Typography

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Conquer Variable Web Typography Venn by Dalton Maag

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86/60 Oliver Schöndorfer ! glyphe

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18 font files 632 KB for web fonts only ! glyphe

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1 font file 56 KB overall size ! glyphe

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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

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What are variable fonts? Voto Serif by Google

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

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

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Aa Aa Aa Aa Aa Variable font file ! glyphe

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Aa Aa Aa Aa Aa Interpolation ! glyphe

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

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Aa Aa Aa Aa Aa weight axis ! glyphe

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

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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

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Using variable fonts on the web Output Sans by DJR

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

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

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@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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Select font or drop font file
See available axes and ranges axis-praxis.org ! glyphe

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5 wght wdth ital slnt opsz registered axes ! glyphe

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Source Serif Variable by Adobe ! glyphe

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

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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

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Venn by Dalton Maag ! glyphe

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

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Output Sans by David Jonathan Ross ! glyphe

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

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Optical Sizing Axis Voto Serif by Google ! glyphe

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

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

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Decovar by FontBureau ! glyphe

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

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Golden times Lab DJR by DJR

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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

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

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dstype.com/variable-fonts ! glyphe

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dstype.com/variable-fonts ! glyphe

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

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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

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Output Sans Hairline by DJR ! glyphe

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

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Output Sans Hairline by DJR ! glyphe

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Hard times Amstelvar by David Berlow

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

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90 named instances for Acumin Variable in Photoshop ! glyphe

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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

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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

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

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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

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Get Started Cheee by OHNO

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Open Source github.com/LettError/mutatorSans ! glyphe

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Add on black-foundry.com/vesterbro ! glyphe

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

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

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

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

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Firefox Nightly DevTools ! glyphe

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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

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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