Pimp my Type
Pimp my Type
Oliver Schöndorfer
Variable Font Design Possibilities & Performance with Jason Pamental
54 minutes Posted Aug 23, 2022 at 5:30 am.
– Introduction
– Greeting to Jason Pamental
– Load web fonts correctly, style fallback fonts
– How web typography is different
– Variable Fonts in a nutshell
– Adoption of Variable Fonts in 2022
– How fonts change the personality of a UI
– Variable Fonts and optical size
– Jason’s job as a principle designer at chewy.com
– Creative possibilities with Variable Fonts
– Improving font loading performance
– Progressive font downloading in the future
– Rapid Round of questions
– Goodbye
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Designer, tinkerer and typographer Jason Pamental joins me to chat about what creative possibilities variable fonts bring. We also dive into web font performance, how to improve loading speed with practical tips, and why this all will become obsolete in the nearer future.
From this easy going conversation, you’ll learn:
➡️ What’s different with typography for screen design.
➡️ About the most common typographic challenges on the web.
➡️ What effect bad web typography has on people.
➡️ About the adoption of variable fonts in 2022.
😂 A brilliant answer to my mean closing question, “Comic Sans or Papyrus?”. 
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🔗 Links, quotables, and performance tips:
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