Best practices for migrating to variable fonts

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Shows how to migrate to variable fonts by replacing multiple font files with a single Roboto Flex file, using Figma Design Lab styles, Google Fonts import, and plain HTML/CSS. Demonstrates axes you can actually tweak—weight, width, slant, grade, optical-size—copies CSS from Figma Inspect or uses font-variation-settings, and uses ranges like 100..700 for animations. Builds a sample card UI, confirms smaller downloads and live typographic tuning work in the browser.

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1. 0:00Intro
2. 0:40Getting started
3. 2:14Axis sliders
4. 3:45Type scale
5. 8:32Implementation
6. 8:50Implementation Example

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