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Variable concept and SVG fonts

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Variable concept and SVG fonts

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- [Instructor] Photoshop supports several different types of specialty fonts, including variable concept fonts and SVG fonts, which can include multi-colored fonts as well as emoji characters. So let's start with variable fonts. Variable fonts are a new technology that support custom attributes like weight, width, slant, and optical size, which gives designers the opportunity to really modify the font according to the look that they're after. Now because this is the beginning of a new technology, there are some important caveats that you need to know about using variable fonts. They are not available in versions of Photoshop before the 2019 version. So you would get a font substitution message in the older versions that might actually swap out a pretty different looking font. Adobe Fonts also don't support variable fonts at the time of this recording, so you can't use them as a web font, and they're currently only…

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