# Processing + Variable Font
**URL:** https://discourse.processing.org/t/processing-variable-font/36445
**Category:** Project Guidance
**Created:** [April 19, 2022, 12:24pm UTC](https://discourse.processing.org/t/processing-variable-font/36445 "2022-04-19T12:24:26Z")
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### Author:  [@Giaco](https://discourse.processing.org/u/Giaco)
#### Post date: [April 19, 2022, 12:24pm UTC](https://discourse.processing.org/t/processing-variable-font/36445/1 "2022-04-19T12:24:26Z")
Hello everyone,
I designed a variable font with a weight and width axis. I was wondering if there is a way to animate variable fonts with processing. Do you know any examples of processing projects using variable fonts?
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### Author:  [@josephh](https://discourse.processing.org/u/josephh)
#### Post date: [April 20, 2022, 7:56pm UTC](https://discourse.processing.org/t/processing-variable-font/36445/2 "2022-04-20T19:56:06Z")
Hi @Giaco,
I found this Reddit thread about variable fonts:
> **[r/processing - variable fonts in processing? possible?](https://www.reddit.com/r/processing/comments/cbtklp/variable_fonts_in_processing_possible/)**
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> 5 votes and 5 comments so far on Reddit
Also this issue on p5.js:
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> \#### Nature of issue?
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> \- \[\] New feature request
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> \#### Most appropriate sub-…area of p5.js?
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> \- \[\] Typography
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> Hey all,
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> The \`text('sometext', x, y);\` only uses the default parameters of the fonts. Since we have now variable fonts there is no way to access these in the current version. Please correct me if I am wrong.
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> \*\*Variable what?\*\*
> Variable font are font files with additional data. Short explanation: one font file with a whole font family inside.
> Variable font have so called \_axes\_ and these have a \_default value\_, \_minimum value\_ and \_maximum value\_.
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> \*\*Axes\*\*
> An axis has a tag, name and the values
> example: weight, wght, 0 1000 200
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> A reasonable way to handle these variation is just like colours. There is a current state and all the thing you do will have this state. Until you change them...
> This way the \`text()\` function will not change at all.
> We only need a way to set the state of a font:
> \`fontVariations()\`
> As arguments something like: \`wght=394, wdth=4\`
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> I have little experience with javascript, I come from python-land. But these variable fonts are ideal for browser environments.
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> Please join this discussion and hopefully get this thing working :)
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> All the best,
> enjoy!
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> Thom
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> look at this!: https://www.axis-praxis.org
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### Author:  [@rapatski](https://discourse.processing.org/u/rapatski)
#### Post date: [June 1, 2023, 8:24am UTC](https://discourse.processing.org/t/processing-variable-font/36445/3 "2023-06-01T08:24:32Z")
I’d like to bump this one. There are few things as “Processing” as variable fonts. PLEASE implement variable font support in Java/Processing??