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Jason Pamental — Variable Fonts & The Future of Web Typography

Author
Goodstuff.FM
Published
Mon 23 Oct 2017
Episode Link
https://share.transistor.fm/s/56fd7490

Jason Pamental is the author of Responsive Typography from O’Reilly Media. He recently won one of the Best Of awards for his web typography talk at the annual CSS Dev Conference 2017.







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Time Jumps


  • 1:29 How was your CSS Dev Conf 2017 experience?

  • 6:20 Is there a sequel to Responsive Typography coming?

  • 7:30 Congrats on winning best of at CSS Dev Conf 2017

  • 9:00 Can you explain what variable fonts are?

  • 13:30 How do the savings come about using this technique?

  • 17:00 Is variable fonts a separate, new file format?

  • 20:20 Is a variable font a designation within WOFF2 or WOFF?

  • 22:30 Can I export variable font from an existing font?

  • 31:00 Building on the work of Rachel Andrew and Jen Simmons

  • 37:20 What’s browser support like for variable fonts?

  • 41:50 Is @supports the key?

  • 43:15 Anything else you’re excited about with variable fonts?

  • 45:30 How can people get in touch with you if they have questions about variable fonts?

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