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I believe it exists and here is a list of reasons for it: https://fonts.google.com/knowledge/introducing_type/introduc...

Cool:

https://www.fontshop.com/content/enable-contextual-alternate...

>Why would you want that?

call me OCD but when I look at stuff written in script my eyes check to see if all the a's are the same, all the b's are the same, all the... and then what I see is manufactured uniformity, a communique from The Machine.

it wouldn't take much variation (say, three different a's) to make me feel a sense of relief that it's warmer and cuddlier

For a handwriting font, it would be fun to have small variations on letters. Just to make it look like something actually handwritten.

You might want it for emulating handwriting by choosing glyphs from a series of fonts so that tokens like "IEEE" or "error" aren't uncanny giveaways of the computer-rendering.

Why would you want it? For the same reason as a font like Times New Bastard. For fun. For creative depression. For no good reason at all.