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Mastering Variable Fonts: The Future of Web Typography

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Mastering Variable Fonts: The Future of Web Typography

April 17, 2023
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Welcome to our comprehensive guide on variable fonts, the groundbreaking font format that enables unparalleled control over typography and design. At YouWorkForThem, we have been at the forefront of supporting and licensing variable designs since their inception. Today, we proudly offer hundreds of variable type designs, ready for instant download to cater to diverse design needs. Our commitment to providing clients with the most cutting-edge and versatile resources is what drives us to share our insights on variable fonts with you.

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What Are Variable Fonts?

Variable fonts are an innovative font format that allows designers to fine-tune typography along multiple axes of variation, such as weight, width, and slant, all within a single font file. Introduced in 2016 as a collaboration between Adobe, Apple, Google, and Microsoft, these powerful fonts have revolutionized web typography and design.

Why Choose a Variable Font?

These unique fonts offer numerous benefits:

  • Enhanced flexibility: Designers gain precise control over typography, enabling more creative and unique designs.
  • Improved performance: A single web font file covers multiple styles, reducing HTTP requests and load times.
  • Better responsiveness: These fonts can be easily adapted to different devices and screen sizes, ensuring a consistent user experience.

Implementing Variable Fonts in CSS for Web Design

To use a these fonts in your web design project, follow these steps:

  1. Include the font file in your CSS with the @font-face rule.
  2. Define the desired axes of variation using the font-variation-settings property.

Here’s an example of how to apply a variable font with custom weight and width:

@font-face {
  font-family: "MyVariableFont";
  src: url('variable-font.eot');
  src: url('variable-font.eot?#iefix') format('embedded-opentype'),
  url('variable-font.woff2') format('woff2'),
  url('variable-font.woff') format('woff'),
  url('variable-font.ttf') format('truetype'),
  url('variable-font.svg#ywftsvg') format('svg');
  font-weight: normal;
  font-style: normal;
  font-family: "MyVariableFont";
  font-variation-settings: "wght" 700, "wdth" 125;

Optimizing Variable Fonts for Web Performance

To ensure optimal performance, consider these best practices:

  • Use the preload directive to load fonts earlier in the page lifecycle.
  • Employ font-display: swap to prevent invisible text during font loading.
  • Limit the number of font variations used to minimize file size.

Utilizing Variable Fonts in Adobe Photoshop

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In addition to their web applications, variable fonts can be effectively used in Adobe Photoshop to create stunning and interesting type settings. Here’s a concise outline on leveraging variable fonts in Photoshop:

  1. Select the Type tool: Choose the Type tool (T) from the toolbar.
  2. Choose a variable font: In the Character panel, select a variable font from the font list.
  3. Adjust font properties: Modify font properties, such as height, weight, width, and slant, using sliders or input fields in the Character panel’s variable font section. Note, some designs might only include a few of those options, it depends on the font.

Discovering Popular Variable Fonts

At YouWorkForThem, we offer an extensive selection of variable fonts to suit any design need. Some of our popular choices include:

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Flexible Font

Flexible is a versatile uppercase typeface inspired by 19th-century gothic typefaces, designed for easy customization of letter height and width. Available in 8 widths and 8 heights, as well as a variable font, it’s perfect for headlines, displays, packaging, and both print and digital environments. Developed with animation in mind, Flexible supports a wide range of languages and comes with a variable font in the complete family pack.

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Aeternus Font

Aeternus is a geometric sans serif variable typeface featuring matching italics, offering versatility with different heights and weights. With nine instances ranging from thin to heavy, and two constant heights (nano and tall), it allows for unique height variation while maintaining weight consistency. Ideal for titling, branding, web design, UI/UX design, and large print formats.

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Agharti Font

Agharti Family is a striking display typeface featuring an x-height equal to the cap height for bold lowercase letters. Ideal for attention-grabbing headlines, it comes with 7 widths, 7 weights, and a variable font, ensuring versatility in various design contexts.

Explore our Variable Fonts section for hundreds of more options to elevate your design projects.

Leveraging YouWorkForThem’s Fonts

By choosing fonts from YouWorkForThem, you’re not only accessing an extensive library of high-quality fonts but also benefiting from our:

  • Two-decade history: As a trusted source for design resources since 2001, we have the expertise and experience to support your creative endeavors.
  • Straightforward licensing: Our easy personal and corporate font licensing options provide flexibility and peace of mind for your projects.
  • Cash back rewards program: Earn rewards with every purchase to save on future design resources, spend $50 and get $5 back in store credit.

Download The Future of Type at YouWorkForThem

Variable fonts offer a world of possibilities for designers seeking flexibility, performance, and responsiveness in their web typography. With YouWorkForThem’s extensive collection of fonts, you can unleash your creativity and bring your designs to life.

Take the next step in elevating your web design projects with our fonts collection and experience the YouWorkForThem difference today.

OC Format Stencil: A Variable Stencil Sans Serif From Otherwhere Collective Based in New York City, OtherwhereCollective was established by Andrew Bellamy, a designer and multidisciplinary creative with a background in branding and identity, illustration, logo design, and typography. His mastery of color theory and experience as a design director has earned Andrew multiple awards for his work. OtherwhereCollective is an interdisciplinary design foundry that features the work of a design team that practices “the art of thinking independently together.” They
The First Variable Font Released By YouWorkForThem: YWFT Fluctuant Back in the olden days of typesetting and letterpress operations, never could type designers have imagined what the future of typography would hold. They certainly wouldn't have predicted the rise of computer-generated type design or the incredible progress that would arise as a result. Sounding like something straight out of science fiction, variable fonts have opened up an entirely new world of design possibilities. Developed through a joint effort by Google, Microsoft, Apple, and Adobe,
Elbaf – a variable font that gives you endless creative possibilities! Elbaf is a variable font, meaning that you can adjust for width, weight, and type from one convenient file. So instead of having to choose between two bolds, you can create something in between, or more toward one or the other. Being free to fine-tune weights and widths means nearly endless style variations, dramatically opening up design possibilities. Put another way, it's like being to turn a radio's volume up or down to whatever degree you want, as opposed to a radio that clicks between

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