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      1. The stretching and boinging animations for variable fonts – as a primary way of explaining what they are, or how they might be useful – are spectacularly missing the point. Several points, in fact.
    1. …in reply to @markboulton
      Here are some things instead. 1. Fewer server requests 2. File size 3. How to optimise optical weight 4. For large scale applications, demonstrate the use of many weights/combinations. Stretching and boinging is not a problem variable fonts might solve.
  1. …in reply to @markboulton
    There are, of course, loads more depending on the font and the different axis. But, boinging and stretching? C'mon. Let's see some real-world design problems that variable fonts will fix.