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Allow CSS font-weight to be used with variable fonts by putting the full range in @font-face

See discussion here: https://community.adobe.com/t5/adobe-fonts-discussions/allow-css-font-weight-to-be-used-with-variable-fonts-by-putting-the-full-range-in-font-face/m-p/13539383#M7419

Summary: when serving variable fonts via CSS, Adobe specifies their font-weight as 400 instead of (say) 100 1000 in the @font-face declaration, which means the font-weight CSS property cannot be used to change these fonts' weights; you must use, say, font-variation-settings: "wght" 700. Ideally Adobe would use 100 1000 as the font-weight in the @font-face declaration so that users could use font-weight in their CSS to change the weight of a variable font.

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  • Arthur Joyce commented  ·   ·  Report

    Yes, absolutely! Google Fonts can do this, no reason Adobe can't.

  • Daniel Ethridge commented  ·   ·  Report

    This should apply to not only `wght`, but also `wdth`, `slnt`, and `opsz`: https://drafts.csswg.org/css-fonts/#fvs-replacements

    Currently, to set _e.g._ the `wght` correctly, **both** the `font-weight` and the `font-variation-settings` need to be set.

    Priority should be much higher because this means all variable font features are broken.

  • Logan Venderlic commented  ·   ·  Report

    Yes-- THIS!! It's super frustrating that they aren't doing this correctly, yet. Please, Adobe, fix this.