Re:Roboto but Make It Flex
by BHSPitMonkey on Saturday May 07, 2022 @03:21AM
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The typeface itself doesn't dictate how you style the different heading levels in your document/stylesheet. Particularly with such a parametrized font like this one, there are many opportunities to creatively differentiate the treatments (and the smoother ramp makes that easier to do).
Yes that is right, I was commenting on the particular choice in the article.
The ramp isn't meant to be different weights. The left is the original Material Design 1 ramp that uses tracking and static font weight tweaks to try to approximate an even color. The right is an actual even color.
Left is old, right is the new design. Yes, it maybe looks "cleaner", but now it is virtually impossible to distinguish the different levels of headings.
> Left: The original Material Design type ramp using Roboto. Right: The same ramp made simple and smoother with Roboto Flex’s regular weight with automatic optical size variations.
From what I know of typography, you want the different levels to be much more different than that.