Allow CSS font-weight to be used with variable fonts by putting the full range in @font-face

[Robert281423674zbe]

When using a variable Adobe font in a web project, when you use the CSS file they generate for you, the `@font-face` declarations look like this:

@Font-face {
	font-family: "rotunda-variable";
	src: url("https://use.typekit.net/af/...") format("woff2"), url("https://use.typekit.net/af/...") format("woff"), url("https://use.typekit.net/af/...") format("opentype");
	font-display: auto;
	font-style: italic;
	font-weight: 400;
	font-stretch: normal;
}

 For a variable font, the fact that `font-weight` is specified as `400` instead of the full range `100 1000` means that you must use `font-variation-settings` to change the weight of the text, eg "`font-variation-settings: "wght" 700` to get bold text. This is inconvenient and doesn't work with non-variable fonts. 

However, browsers support the `font-weight` attribute for variable fonts. All that it would take to activate this is to change `font-weight: 400` in the `@font-face` declaration to `font-weight: 100 1000` (or whatever the full range of font weights is); then you could have the variable font be bold with just `font-weight: bold`. Ideally, Adobe would serve the following CSS:

@Font-face {
	font-family: "rotunda-variable";
	src: url("https://use.typekit.net/af/...") format("woff2"), url("https://use.typekit.net/af/...") format("woff"), url("https://use.typekit.net/af/...") format("opentype");
	font-display: auto;
	font-style: italic;
	font-weight: 100 1000; /* changed */
	font-stretch: normal;
}

Then, even when using variable fonts, users could still write `font-weight: bold` in their CSS and not have to fiddle with the variable axes in `font-variation-settings`.

[Neelamk]

Hi Robert,

Thank you for your time in sharing your valuable feedback. We will take this ahead to the out team to work on this and keep you posted once we hear from them. Also, I would recommend you share the feedback through https://adobefonts.uservoice.com/forums/940222-adobe-fonts-feature-requests-and-feedback

Regards,

Neelam

[jeremyl52385609]

This seems like real basic support for variable fonts. Any movement on this?