Variable fonts

Typography on the web has long been considered second to web page performance, leaving web designers unable to apply all but the most basic typographic principles to online content. Until now. With the recent emergence of the variable font format, designers can work with an entire font family as they do in print.

Tom Rickner, veteran type designer, shares his personal role in the beginnings of type’s most exciting development in decades.

Bob Taylor, Monotype’s Font Technologies Director, offers his views on the promise of Variable Fonts and shares how Monotype and the tech industry are bringing this promise to reality.  He shares a few Variable Font tests gone wrong, what we are learning, and introduces the newest Variable Font from Monotype.

With the emergence of variable fonts, design no longer has to be traded for page speed. See how this new technology can transform how we think about web design.