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| author | Rasmus Andersson <rasmus@figma.com> | 2019-04-01 04:51:11 +0300 |
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| committer | Rasmus Andersson <rasmus@figma.com> | 2019-04-01 04:51:11 +0300 |
| commit | c130c691f579613490dabfe2da9bd7b2a562e70b (patch) | |
| tree | 86b1923c71ccb67cc9353daac2ac9643ad03d0b7 | |
| parent | 794662c7d1d6572562a0a78de921b6aad8f7a764 (diff) | |
| download | inter-c130c691f579613490dabfe2da9bd7b2a562e70b.tar.xz | |
misc documentation on variable font usage
| -rw-r--r-- | misc/dist/variable.txt | 10 |
1 files changed, 7 insertions, 3 deletions
diff --git a/misc/dist/variable.txt b/misc/dist/variable.txt index 2f79e19b1..566b2ef28 100644 --- a/misc/dist/variable.txt +++ b/misc/dist/variable.txt @@ -3,9 +3,9 @@ Variable fonts is a new technology still undergoing development. The directory named "Inter (TTF variable)" contains three files: -- Inter.var.ttf -- multi-axis complete family -- Inter-italic.var.ttf -- italic-only with variable weight axis. -- Inter-upright.var.ttf-- upright-only with variable weight axis. +- Inter.var.ttf -- Multi-axis complete family +- Inter-italic.var.ttf -- Single-axis italic style with variable weight axis. +- Inter-upright.var.ttf -- Single-axis upright/roman style with variable weight axis. The "Inter (web)" directory contains WOFF2 versions of these same font files. @@ -14,6 +14,10 @@ Support for variable fonts is limited as of late 2018, but support is quickly arriving to web browsers, operating systems and design application. +Multi-axis variable fonts have worse support than single-axis variable fonts, +so in case you are experiencing issue with the multi-axis font, try the +two single-axis variable fonts instead. + If you're in doubt or uncertain about variable fonts, then you probably don't need to use a variable font, and you can ignore files which name contains ".var" |