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Source: https:\/\/www.theverge.com\/2022\/5\/6\/23059186\/google-roboto-flex-variable-font-web-design<\/a>
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As someone who is really into fonts, I know that most people don\u2019t share my passion \u2014 but I genuinely think that anyone who cares at all about typography will have some interest in what Google announced on Thursday<\/a>. If you\u2019ve ever used anything made by Google<\/a>, you\u2019ve seen Roboto. Now, Google\u2019s introducing something called Roboto Flex. As the name implies, it\u2019s a version of its famous font that you can tweak and customize in a ton of ways.<\/p>\n

I can sense I might be about to lose a lot of people, so let\u2019s try this: here\u2019s a gif showing all the customizable parameters Roboto Flex has. There\u2019s no trickery going on \u2014 I\u2019m not changing a raster image with Photoshop or anything. Everything you see is built into the font itself and can be changed as easily as the font size.<\/p>\n

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Of course, you can combine as many of these changes as you\u2019d like.<\/em><\/figcaption><\/span><\/p>\n<\/figure>\n

Pretty cool, right? (If you just said \u201cno\u201d to your computer screen, you have my permission to leave now. This isn\u2019t going to get any more interesting for you.)<\/p>\n

Basically, what\u2019s happening is that Roboto Flex is a \u201cvariable font,\u201d meaning that you don\u2019t have to manually load separate files to make changes to its weight, slant, or other variables. Flex goes further than just the basic changes, though; Google says there are 12 different ways you can tweak it, including changing its width, stroke thickness, and even the heights of ascending and descending stems (like are found on the letters \u201cd\u201d and \u201cp,\u201d respectively).<\/p>\n

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These types of fonts have been around for a while \u2014 even Roboto Flex has been publicly in the works for a year or so<\/a>, but it\u2019s cool to see that Google\u2019s making it readily available to anyone that wants to use it.<\/p>\n

Roboto Flex also has a few other interesting features that aren\u2019t directly related to making it look cool. In its blog post<\/a>, Google says it\u2019s put a lot of balancing into the font to make sure that it looks right at specific sizes, so the text will look properly bold or thin, whether it\u2019s taking up an entire page or is just a teeny footnote. Google\u2019s announcement also gets into how the font\u2019s designers (a studio called Font Bureau) made sure tiny details were right. Apparently, the circles used in the percent symbol are proportionally the same as the numeral 0. That is some hardcore font nerdery, and I love it.<\/p>\n

What this all means in practice is that designers have a lot of control over how their text ends up looking without having to do a lot of work (assuming the application they\u2019re working with actually supports variable fonts<\/a>). It\u2019s also great for web designers who want a standard-looking font that they can tweak to make sure their headings and titles stand out, both from the rest of the text on the page and from other websites. It also doesn\u2019t hurt that, because it\u2019s a Google Font, you can add it to your site with one or two lines of code.<\/p>\n

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It\u2019s easy to import Roboto Flex to use on your website (though I think it would take someone with more advanced Google Font API knowledge than me to navigate the settings).<\/em><\/figcaption><\/span><\/p>\n<\/figure>\n

Plus… look, this may be going out on a limb here, but I couldn\u2019t help but think about all the fun UI things you could do if this were the font on, say, a phone with a folding display. You know, like the one Google\u2019s supposedly working on<\/a>? It\u2019s easy to imagine visual tricks like the font stretching while you fold open your phone or where text keeps the same proportions when you go from the small front screen to the larger inside screen. That type of thing would be much easier to implement if you\u2019re working with a flexible font and would be really fun to see in practice (and Google\u2019s all about fun in Android now<\/a>, right?) <\/p>\n

This isn\u2019t the only interesting font Google\u2019s made recently. It also announced a seriffed version of Roboto<\/a>, which would seem like heresy if it didn\u2019t actually look really nice, and it even brought back the beloved blobs<\/a> in its Noto Emoji font. It\u2019s not the only one playing around with variable fonts either \u2014 Apple\u2019s SF Pro<\/a>, which is used as the default font on pretty much all of its devices, supports variable optical sizes, and Microsoft\u2019s programmer-focused Cascadia Code<\/a> supports variable weights.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n


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