Bringing expressive, performant typography to Microsoft Edge with Variable Fonts

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For years, rich typography has been the envy of many web designers, who long for the typographic variety, texture, and precision available in print media. Now, with the recent innovations of
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―pioneered in collaboration between Microsoft, Adobe, Apple, Google, and others―and
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allowing for developers to control font variations in CSS, things are about to change.

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In this example from
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, the Decovar font is animated along an astounding 15 axes using variable fonts.


Full support for Variable Fonts (including CSS
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and font-optical-sizing) is coming to Microsoft Edge starting with EdgeHTML 17, available to preview in
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builds as of
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. To demonstrate how variable fonts enable expressive, performant experiences, we’ve built a new immersive developer guide on Test Drive:
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, and how to use them on your site.


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, and how to use them on your site. For the best experience, visit the
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in a modern browser that supports font-variation-settings and font-optical-sizing, such as Microsoft Edge on
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build
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or higher.

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