Jason Pamental — Variable Fonts & The Future of Web Typography

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.

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?

Links:

Christopher Schmitt
Christopher Schmitt on Twitter
Jason Pamental on Twitter
Jason Pamental on GitHub
Jason’s Responsive Web Typography
Responsive Typography: Using Type Well on the Web
CSS Dev Conf 2017: Variable Fonts & The Future of Web Design
Matthew Carter
📺Matthew Carter’s TED Talk: My Life in Typefaces
ARTIFACT Conference
Richard Rutter’s Web Typography
Typekith
Bram Stein
Opentype
Woff (Web Open Font Format)
TrueType
Woff2
Glyphs App
ATypI
Lawrence Penny on Twitter
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