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Roboto Flex by @fontbureau is here!

After 5 years of intensive development, its huge range of weights and widths across a complete stack of optical sizes is ready for you to use in all kinds of products and documents.

material.io/blog/roboto-fl…

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For this release, we’ve added a little more knowledge to our site about what makes Roboto Flex truly special—a big new idea in type and #variablefonts: Parametric Axes.

fonts.google.com/knowledge/glos…

Want to geek out on parametric axes? Watch @dberlow discussing what they are and how he came up with the idea. @Atypl

Here’s another deep dive with @dberlow presenting the deeper theory of the parametric axes concept @typedirectors club.

This one’s titled "Beyond The Quest for the Perfect Uppercase Partial Differential."

We can’t stop with @dberlow and parametric axes.

Here he is with @sannorozco and @davelab6 talking about #RobotoFlex and a more practical look at how to use parametric axes in #typography.

If you want to read more about parametric axes and play with interactive demos, there are practical use-cases on variablefonts.typenetwork.com

There's another good @dberlow presentation to @typeparis from 2018 here, too

Here's a small demo of how to use all the axes, and all the ranges, from our API

jsbin.com/falareh/edit?h…

Roboto Flex was featured last year at @adobemax in a readability study by @zoyathinks @Sofie_Beier and Dr Shannon Sheppard: readabilitymatters.org/articles/adobe…