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Font Playground

Play with variable fonts and experiment with layouts

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Font Playground is a free, browser-based tool for playing with variable fonts. It lets you adjust font axes, preview text, and export CSS. The project is maintained by Wenting Zhang and Hua Shu, and is intended for designers, tool makers, and type designers to experiment with and showcase variable font technology.

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