The real power of variable axes is that it's not related to weight in the slighted. That's the most obvious use-case, but it's just a mechanism to control "which points in a glyph's outline go where based on what one or more variables are set to", so just using it to change weight is... kinda obvious and boring? Let's kick it up a notch:
Caveat: Google Fonts, and by extension Fontsource which mostly just mirrors Googles files, strips out nearly all of the advanced OpenType features to reduce the filesize. It's worth checking the upstream version of your font to see which features it actually offers.
e.g. Wakamai Fondue lists 11 features for Googles version of Inter (some essential ones plus fractions, tabular numbers, numerators, denominators and contextual alts), while the full fat version of Inter has a whopping 44 features (too many to list, see https://rsms.me/inter/).
rob74 ·126 days ago
Or things like showing a clock, countdown, whatever. A time that "jumps around" on the screen from one second to the next annoys the hell out of me...
TheRealPomax ·126 days ago
https://v-fonts.com/fonts/extendomatic-variable
https://v-fonts.com/fonts/tatras-shaded
https://v-fonts.com/fonts/wavefont
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airstrike ·126 days ago
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bobbylarrybobby ·126 days ago
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jsheard ·126 days ago
e.g. Wakamai Fondue lists 11 features for Googles version of Inter (some essential ones plus fractions, tabular numbers, numerators, denominators and contextual alts), while the full fat version of Inter has a whopping 44 features (too many to list, see https://rsms.me/inter/).
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