Hello
I wonder if I could get some insight from those with more experience in variable fonts.
I recently made my first variable font that contains two axes; weight and slant. I wonder if it is better to offer it as one file with both axes or as two files, one for weight and one for slant? The file is 140k as one variable font with both axes. I am mainly trying to understand the functionality benefits of two files instead of one.
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I suspect your question stems from having seen variable font families that are distributed as a pair of roman+italic files, is that correct? This would be done when the roman and italic glyphs do not have compatible outlines, and there is no slant axis.
Yes, it was because I have seen them available as pairs. Thanks to you and Dave for the info.