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A sans typeface inspired by the work of Edward Johnston and Eric Gill.
| Tags: body text, sans, Johnstonian | |
| Design: | Pablo Impallari |
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| Publisher: | Pablo Impallari |
| Characters: | Latin, Vietnamese |
| Released: | 2016-11-16 |
| Licensing: | Open source |
| Info/fonts: | github.com |
An variable interpretation and expansion of Morris Fuller Benton’s Franklin Gothic.
| Tags: body text, sans, gothic, soft corners, woman-designed | |
| Design: | Pablo Impallari, Rodrigo Fuenzalida, Nhung Nguyen |
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| Publisher: | Impallari Type |
| Characters: | Latin, Vietnamese |
| Released: | 2016-11-10 |
| Licensing: | Open source |
| Info/fonts: | github.com |
A sans in the tradition of Edward Johnston, offered with “a very limited character set”.
| Tags: body text, sans, Johnstonian | |
| Design: | Christoph Koeberlin |
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| Publisher: | Christoph Koeberlin |
| Characters: | Latin (limited) |
| Released: | 2016-10-24 |
| Licensing: | Free for non-commercial use |
| Info/fonts: | koe.berlin |
A variable font version of Dunbar, CJ Dunn’s type family inspired by Jakob Erbar’s Erbar-Grotesk.
| Tags: decorative/display, sans, geometric, monoline, optical sizes, phototype, variable lowercase height | |
| Design: | CJ Dunn |
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| Publisher: | CJ Type |
| Characters: | Latin |
| Released: | 2016-10-18 |
| Licensing: | Paid/commercial |
| Info/fonts: | cjtype.com |
Lab DJR is a pixel font built from a single repeating interpolated block.
| Tags: decorative/display, sans, modular, pixel, polygonal, quantized, rectangular, spurless, straight-sided, unusual variation | |
| Design: | David Jonathan Ross |
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| Publisher: | DJR |
| Characters: | Latin |
| Released: | 2016-10-04 |
| Licensing: | By request |
| Info/fonts: | djr.com |
This single-glyph experiment was the first font ever offered for retail licensing with the OpenType font variations technology. Priced at $1, it contains a single “n” from the Dunbar type family, and is available in an “error” version with interpolation errors.
| Tags: sans, proof of concept, unusual variation | |
| Design: | CJ Dunn |
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| Publisher: | CJ Type |
| Characters: | Latin (limited) |
| Released: | 2016-09-19 |
| Licensing: | Paid/commercial |
| Info/fonts: | cjtype.com |
A condensed sans with grade variations to subtly change the weight while maintaining consistent widths. Action Text is the counterpart for small sizes.
| Tags: decorative/display, sans, gothic, inserat, multiplexed, multiplexed weight, straight-sided | |
| Design: | Erik van Blokland |
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| Publisher: | Commercial Type |
| Characters: | Latin |
| Released: | 2016-01-12 |
| Licensing: | By request |
| Info/fonts: | commercialtype.com |
SF Pro is the core of Apple’s San Francisco type series. It is the system font for macOS, iOS, iPad OS, and tvOS.
| Tags: body text, sans, dingbats, monoline, multiplexed, multiplexed weight, neo-grotesque, optical sizes | |
| Design: | Apple |
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| Publisher: | Apple |
| Characters: | Latin, Greek, Cyrillic, Vietnamese, dingbats/emoji |
| Released: | 2015-06-12 |
| Updated: | 2022-03-31 |
| Licensing: | Bundled |
| Info/fonts: | developer.apple.com |
Skia is, in many ways, the grandparent of modern OpenType variable fonts. Matthew Carter’s Latin successor to his lesser-known Cadmus Greek, Skia was the first of the GX fonts that allowed font variation functionality. Developed for Apple, it has been bundled with their operating systems since System 7.5 in 1994. In more recent OS’s, only the named instances of Skia’s stylistic variations are exposed in the system’s font interface, without variable controls. However, the font still contains data for fluid variation, including stylistic extremes of weight and width beyond those offered as named instances.
| Tags: decorative/display, sans, calligraphic, feature variations, flared/concave, inscriptional, spurless | |
| Design: | Matthew Carter |
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| Publisher: | Apple |
| Characters: | Latin |
| Released: | 1994-09-12 |
| Licensing: | Bundled |
| Info/fonts: | wikipedia.org |