How "beta" is OTVar font format?

Variable type in OT format is flagged as Beta in Fontlab 8's export to fonts option. Is there any risk in using that option?

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  • John Hudson
    John Hudson Posts: 3,535
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    The format itself isn’t beta, but FontLab 8’s export profile for the CFF2 flavour of OpenType variable font is flagged that way because it was pretty new when FL8 shipped. I am not aware of any specific risks with using it, but it has been years since I relied on any font editing tool to directly generate fonts, so have not had occasion to analyse the output.

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