[mortenjorck]

Initially I thought this was an error, because there are other variable fonts on Google Fonts that are displayed with multiple sliders, such as Playfair Display or Work Sans. However, it looks like in each of these cases, the italics are a separate font definition, with only a single variable axis (weight) offered for each. It appears Google Fonts doesn’t currently have a way to deal with multi-axis variable fonts.

[thundernixon]

It’s more the case that the weight axis is common, and commonly understood, so the Google Fonts front end just leaves out any axis that isn’t Weight or Italic, I guess as a “UX” consideration. It’s unfortunate. The good news is, the Google Fonts API (the thing that serves fonts and CSS based on specific URLs) _does_ handle the other axes.

So, the Recursive minisite has a configuration tool (under the “Get Recursive” button) that makes it easy to get Google Fonts embed code for all axes.

[thundernixon]

https://www.recursive.design/