I've been joined by Roel Nieskens for a deep dive into Typography, exploring the awesome things we can do with variable fonts, and a bunch of useful Open Type features that we have at our disposal, that a lot of people aren't even are aware we have control over with CSS!
🔗 Links
✅ Roel's website: https://pixelambacht.nl/
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✅ Wakamaifondeu: https://wakamaifondue.com/
✅ V Fonts: https://v-fonts.com/
✅ Atlas of Type: https://type-atlas.xyz/
✅ Typearture: https://www.typearture.com/
✅ Collection of Color Fonts! https://fullystacked.net/colorfonts/
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⌚ Timestamps
00:00 - Introduction
01:11 - Variable font basics
08:15 - Custom axis control with variable fonts
10:47 - How to find the custom axes
14:59 - Creative fonts
25:36 - Finding fonts
27:07 - Color fonts
38:05 - Practical Typography with CSS
39:46 - Tabular numbers
45:10 - Improving prose
49:16 - Improving technical writing
54:34 - font-feature-settings
57:52 - Font related units
1:01:21 - Perfect centering trick
01:06:12 - Explore your fonts
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