DESCRIPTION

A Variable Font file contains data of an entire typeface family and allows an unlimited amount of style variations defined by the designer.

HISTORY

Variable Fonts started with a technology created by Apple (TrueType GX for QuickDraw GX), from which Adobe, Google, and Microsoft joined in to develop it into OpenType Variable Fonts, announced in 2016. Today, Variable fonts are the go-to font format (for typefaces available in such format) for digital media, especially when there are animated texts.

BENEFITS

Unlike static fonts (in which one font file contains the data of a single style), one Variable Font file contains as many variations as possible between two or more master files of a typeface. Rather than searching for the right file for the right style within a typeface family, the user can install one Variable Font file of a typeface, adjust the style to what is desired and have the design application automatically generate the result or have an optimized variation to the environment whenever it changes (responsive to the screen format).