Responsible responsive typography: a crash-course on variable fonts and accessibility

A presentation at jsday 2020 in in Verona, VR, Italy by Damien Senger

Variable fonts are here and we can now create complex and scalable typographic system quickly and efficiently. An efficiency that can easily help us improving the performance and the accessibility our web projects. Sounds incredible right? But with great power comes a series of responsibilities: let’s see how we can balance accessibility needs, performance requirements and creativity to deliver accessible and inclusive reading experiences using variable fonts.