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Text set in Oswald variable

What the web wants

Friday, 18 October, 2019

[Spoiler alert: it’s you, and your variable fonts]

I wrote a bit about this in my ATypI wrap-up, but felt this was important enough to revisit. While there are certainly reasons for type designers and foundries to be circumspect about...

The ATypI stage

ATypI Tokyo: In-Variably interesting

Monday, 9 September, 2019

There’s no way to adequately sum up what a magical week this has been. A combination of a completely new place and cultural experience, reuniting with a community of friends I only see once or twice a year, and dozens...

Crazy variable axis examples

Variable fonts and quirky custom axes

Friday, 17 May, 2019

Now that we’ve covered the basics of what variable fonts are, how to implement them, and a bit more about what we can do with them to improve the reading experience, let’s focus on some fun. While the registered axes...

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Great Typography on the Web with Variable Fonts

From paper to pixel, metal to malleable New developments in fonts and the web allow us to practice better typography on screens than ever before. In some ways, even better than we can in print. Get an in-depth introduction to...
Workshop

Modern Typographic Systems with Variable Fonts

Modern developments one the web make it easier than ever to create robust, scalable, elegant typographic systems. Add variable fonts and things get really exciting. We’ll look at how to combine them all to create a whole new way to...
Talk
Talking about Variable Fonts at TYPO Labs, photo courtesy of Peter Constable

2018: Purposeful iteration

Wednesday, 2 January, 2019

2018 was an interesting and exciting year. Not just for what happened, but for what didn’t. This is my own way of trying to capture some of those changes, why I made some of them, and what I hope to...

Mid-build at Fuller Moto in Atlanta

Georgia on my mind

Tuesday, 16 October, 2018

Seldom does serendipity smile so kindly—but I won’t question it. The chance to work with one of the top state digital service teams on typographic and design system refinement and integration is pretty special...

Variable Font Preview

by Mark Fömberg
A really useful little plugin for the Glyphs type design application to preview variation axes of a variable font right within Glyphs, skipping the need...

Variable Fonts Guide

by Jason Pamental
Variable fonts are an evolution of the OpenType font specification that enables many different variations of a typeface to be incorporated into a single file...
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