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. This episode of Non Breaking Space Show is sponsored by: UX Design Newsletter — A weekly free newsletter containing a collection of tutorials, articles, and videos about front-end design and development, plus tips on how to bring better engagement to the multi-device world curated by Christopher Schmitt. Sign up now! 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 AXIS-PRAXIS. Non Breaking Space Show on TuneIn Non Breaking Space Show for Android Non Breaking Space Show on Google Play Non Breaking Space Show on iTunes Non Breaking Space Show on Facebook 📺 Non Breaking Space Show on YouTube Non Breaking Space Show Newsletter