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> forgetting Or rather deliberately not including to decrease download size. Though OpenType variable fonts are a thing now. e.g. Inter https://rsms.me/inter/

• sings 7y ago
  Maybe deliberate, but I don’t think it’s a good idea. This is an optimisation where the user actually sees the artefact/degradation. And that font would otherwise be used over the whole session. Excluding bold copy on the page or using system fonts in the design seem like better alternatives for saving bandwidth. Or appropriate use of the font-display property. Otherwise I see this as choosing custom fonts and only half implementing them for a design. And variable fonts still need two sets of outlines to interpolate between glyph weights, so they may not completely answer the problem.