Bringing expressive, performant typography to Microsoft Edge with Variable Fonts For years, rich typography has been the envy of many web designers, who long for the typographic variety, texture, and precision available in print media. Now, with the recent innovations of OpenType Variable Fonts―pioneered in collaboration between Microsoft, Adobe, Apple, Google, and others―and new standards allowing for developers to control font variations in CSS, things are about to change. In this example from our Variable Fonts demo, the Decovar font is animated along an astounding 15 axes using variable fonts. Full support for Variable Fonts (including CSS font-variation-settings and font-optical-sizing) is coming to Microsoft Edge starting with EdgeHTML 17, available to preview in Windows Insider Preview builds as of Build 17120. To demonstrate how variable fonts enable expressive, performant experiences, we’ve built a new immersive developer guide on Test Drive: Variable [ more... ]


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