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    #10: Variable Fonts in CSS are Crazy Awesome

    October 12th, 2016 · 46 minutes

    This week's special guest is my friend Tim Brown, Head of Typography at Adobe. We discuss the recent announcement of Variable Fonts and what that means for type on the web, the complexity of CSS, and the future of responsive web design.

    Guest Starring: Tim Brown

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    Links and Show Notes

    BeamNG.drive
    YouTube: BeamNG.drive Trucks vs Cars #5
    The Typekit Blog | Variable fonts, a new kind of font for flexible design
    John Hudson: Introducing OpenType Variable Fonts
    RoboFont: The Font Editor You Have Been Waiting For ;-)
    Glyphs: Font Editing for Everyone
    Superpolator: Multidimensional Interpolation
    Tim Brown on CodePen
    The Typekit Blog: Flexible typography with CSS locks
    CSS Working Group Editor Draft GitHub repository - https://hg.csswg.org/drafts
    The Typekit Blog: Type rendering on the web
    Nice Web Type
    Typekit Practice