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By Ralf Herrmann

InDesign now supports variable fonts

“InDesign now supports Variable Font, a new Open Type font format supporting custom attributes such as weight, width, slant, optical size, etc. You can change these custom attributes using convenient slider controls available in the Control panel, Character panel, Character Styles panel, and Paragraph Styles panel.”

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    Abraham Lee

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    I hope the animation isn't truly representative of the behavior. I would have expected a smooth transition from one end to the other.

    Riccardo Sartori

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    55 minutes ago, Abraham Lee said:

    I would have expected a smooth transition from one end to the other.

    It would depend on the font: variable fonts can have either continuous or fixed increments along the axes.

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