Designer, tinkerer and typographer Jason Pamental joins me to chat about what creative possibilities variable fonts bring. We also dive into web font performance, how to improve loading speed with practical tips, and why this all will become obsolete in the nearer future.

From this easy going conversation, you’ll learn:

➡️ What’s different with typography for screen design.

➡️ About the most common typographic challenges on the web.

➡️ What effect bad web typography has on people.

➡️ About the adoption of variable fonts in 2022.

😂 A brilliant answer to my mean closing question, “Comic Sans or Papyrus?”. 

💌 Newsletter with weekly font recommendations

https://pimpmytype.com/newsletter

Talking points:

00:00 – Introduction

03:26 – Greeting to Jason Pamental

06:40 – Load web fonts correctly, style fallback fonts

11:07 – How web typography is different

16:07 – Variable Fonts in a nutshell

18:15 – Adoption of Variable Fonts in 2022

25:31 – How fonts change the personality of a UI

29:34 – Variable Fonts and optical size

33:55 – Jason’s job as a principle designer at chewy.com

36:12 – Creative possibilities with Variable Fonts

39:53 – Improving font loading performance

46:19 – Progressive font downloading in the future

49:50 – Rapid Round of questions

53:00 – Goodbye

🔗 Links, quotables, and performance tips:

https://pimpmytype.com/talk03

💌 Your feedback & guest suggestions:

oliver@pimpmytype.com