They do add more design flexibility in my sign projects. One hazard: I do have to remember to inspect the letters in outline view to look for any overlaps in letters. Such a thing would be really bad in artwork sent to a vinyl cutter or routing table.
The plotter knife or routing bit will cut wherever a path is present. Some Variable Fonts have overlaps in their glyphs while others do not. The Bahnscrift font in Windows is one that does have overlaps. Further, it might be nice if Microsoft and Monotype could develop a Variable version of Arial. I'm not a big fan of Arial. But I see so much horrible quality sign designs involving the default Arial typeface. And so many people just squeeze and stretch this typeface to cram it into any visible space.
They won't spend a few minutes to set a natively condensed or extended typeface into the layout. It's just "churn and burn. But then there's no guarantee sign designers would use the Variable features in a default typeface even if they were available.
Industry specific application support is another matter. I have to use applications like Adobe Illustrator for advanced type features in sign designs because none of the sign industry-specific applications Flexi, SignLab, Gerber Omega, etc have proper support for OpenType fonts.
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