Variable Fonts have unleashed a whole new world of creative possibilities along with enhancing website’s readability, accessibility, performance, flexibility, and responsiveness. Developers no longer need to rely on standard static fonts bound with fixed design limitations, but, rather, can embrace variable fonts to unlock thousands of typographic variations along with font animations to create unique custom font styles.
Variable fonts are part of the ‘OpenType’ specification originally developed as a joint collaborative project between the four giants – Apple, Microsoft, Adobe, and Google. The key concept behind variable fonts is to utilize unlimited font style variations of a specific typeface by relying on just a single font file. This allows a developer to fully utilize the potential of RWD (responsive web design) by modifying or animating the typeface based on a device'c viewport, type, orientation, mouse events, etc. On the contrary, standard static font requires separate font files for each font style, resulting in dreadful site performance.