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Comment by globular-toast

1 year ago

Why do the increasing weights also look larger? Also, since they've shown it white on black a few times, aren't fonts supposed to have different weights for black on white vs white on black to compensate for different perceived weight?

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globular-toast

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robin_reala  1 year ago

This is one of the big benefits of variable fonts with a bold axis: you can tweak the optical weight for dark mode without needing a whole new face.

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