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Typefaces constructed primarily with straight lines and no curves.
A monospaced, all-caps, pixel typeface.
| Tags: sans, all caps, monoline, monospaced, pixel, polygonal, rectangular, straight-sided | |
| Design: | Heydon |
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| Publisher: | Heydon |
| Characters: | Latin (limited) |
| Released: | 2021-06-24 |
| Licensing: | Trial, Paid/commercial |
| Info/fonts: | heydon.works/skwar |
An angular, heavy metal, retro-futuristic typeface.
| Tags: decorative/display, sans, futuristic/sci-fi, grayletter, monoline, multiplexed, polygonal, sharp, stencil | |
| Design: | Adam Jagosz |
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| Publisher: | Adam Jagosz |
| Characters: | Latin, Vietnamese |
| Released: | 2019-12-31 |
| Licensing: | Paid/commercial |
| Info/fonts: | myfonts.com |
A pair of sans and slab chamfered typefaces.
| Tags: decorative/display, slab serif, sans, all caps, chamfered, gothic, monoline, polygonal, straight-sided | |
| Design: | Tobias Alexandersson |
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| Publisher: | BoxTube Labs |
| Characters: | Latin |
| Released: | 2019-12-04 |
| Licensing: | Paid/commercial |
| Info/fonts: | myfonts.com |
A chunky sans made with only straight lines.
| Tags: decorative/display, sans, grayletter, polygonal, woman-designed | |
| Design: | Kimya Gandhi |
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| Publisher: | Mota Italic |
| Characters: | Latin, Devanagari |
| Released: | 2019-11-11 |
| Licensing: | Paid/commercial |
| Info/fonts: | motaitalic.com |
A special-purpose font that demonstrates the relationships between variable “width” axes for use with different writing directions. For example, horizontal layout is typical with Western characters (represented as hollow rectangles in this font), but vertical layout is often used with some Asian characters (represented as solid rectangles), and it’s possible to combine aspects of both in different ways. This can make the relationship between different glyphs’ width, height, and rotation complicated. Ken Lunde explains more in the article introducing the font.
| Tags: CFF, dingbats, proof of concept, monospaced, polygonal, rectangular, straight-sided, unusual variation | |
| Design: | Ken Lunde |
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| Publisher: | Adobe |
| Characters: | dingbats/emoji, Pan-Unicode |
| Released: | 2019-06-19 |
| Licensing: | Open source |
| Info/fonts: | github.com |
A gemstone typeface with adjustable faceting.
| Tags: decorative/display, sans, chamfered, ornamented, polygonal, soft corners, spurless, unusual variation | |
| Design: | Arthur Reinders Folmer |
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| Publisher: | Typearture |
| Characters: | Latin |
| Released: | 2019-05-07 |
| Licensing: | Paid/commercial |
| Info/fonts: | typearture.com |
A set of special-purpose variable fonts based on Adobe Blank and Adobe Blank 2, intended to render all Unicode characters / code points using variable glyphs. Adobe Blank VF renders all code points with empty space, and Adobe Black VF renders them with a variable rectangle. The “2” versions of the fonts are produced in a way that is more data-efficient, but may not be supported in all environments. In those cases, the plain Adobe Blank VF and Adobe Black VF fonts can be used. Ken Lunde explains more in the article about the fonts.
| Tags: CFF, dingbats, monospaced, polygonal, rectangular, straight-sided, unusual variation | |
| Design: | Ken Lunde |
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| Publisher: | Adobe |
| Characters: | dingbats/emoji, Pan-Unicode |
| Released: | 2019-05-06 |
| Updated: | 2019-06-19 |
| Licensing: | Open source |
| Info/fonts: | github.com |
A slab serif styled after classic letterman / varsity style lettering, with some variation axes adopted from the Type Network parametric axes proposal.
| Tags: decorative/display, slab serif, all caps, chamfered, horizontal stress, monoline, multiplexed, multiplexed weight, optical sizes, polygonal, rectangular, straight-sided, variable lowercase height | |
| Design: | Eduardo Tunni |
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| Publisher: | Eduardo Tunni |
| Characters: | Latin |
| Released: | 2019-03-26 |
| Licensing: | Open source |
| Info/fonts: | github.com |
An experimental typeface that embraces the strange results of interpolating between blackletter and early Cyrillic ustav forms. Offered with discounted pricing while it’s still a work in progress.
| Tags: decorative/display, serif, sans, blackletter, calligraphic, proof of concept, pinched joints, polygonal, retractable serifs, sharp, unusual variation, ustav, wavy/wiggly | |
| Design: | CSTM Fonts |
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| Publisher: | CSTM Fonts |
| Characters: | Cyrillic, Latin (limited) |
| Released: | 2019-02-21 |
| Licensing: | Paid/commercial |
| Info/fonts: | futurefonts.xyz |
Handjet started as an exercise with design students to make a typeface for handset printers and their 32-pixel vertical matrix, but grew into a large multi-script design.
In 2019, Google sponsored and extension and open-source release of the typeface. Consultants for the project include Maria Doreuli (Cyrillic), Irene Vlachou (Greek), Borna Izadpanah (Arabic), Khajag Apelian (Armenian), and Meir Sadan (Hebrew).
The font is provided with a warning that “variable fonts are relatively new and Handjet sometimes challenges the limits. You might get unpredictable, yet beautiful and somewhat amusing, rendering errors in Adobe software. It works well in browsers as far as we know.”
| Tags: decorative/display, sans, modular, multiplexed, multiplexed weight, pixel, polygonal, straight-sided, unusual variation | |
| Design: | David Březina |
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| Publisher: | Rosetta Type Foundry |
| Characters: | Latin, Vietnamese, Cyrillic, Greek, Armenian, Arabic, Hebrew, dingbats/emoji |
| Released: | 2018-12-04 |
| Updated: | 2021-05-12 |
| Licensing: | Open source |
| Info/fonts: | rosettatype.com |
An all-caps typeface with variable ribbon-like ornamentation.
| Tags: decorative/display, sans, all caps, chamfered, modular, multiplexed, ornamented, polygonal, rectangular, retractable serifs, sharp, straight-sided, split terminals, unusual variation, wood type | |
| Design: | George Triantafyllakos |
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| Publisher: | George Triantafyllakos |
| Characters: | Latin, Greek |
| Released: | 2018-11-27 |
| Licensing: | Free for non-commercial use, Free for commercial use |
| Info/fonts: | backpacker.gr |
A monospaced typeface made of variable pixels.
| Tags: decorative/display, some serifs, modular, monospaced, ornamented, pixel, polygonal | |
| Design: | George Triantafyllakos |
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| Publisher: | George Triantafyllakos |
| Characters: | Latin, Greek |
| Released: | 2018-11-27 |
| Licensing: | Free for non-commercial use, Free for commercial use |
| Info/fonts: | backpacker.gr |
A chamfered sans where the counterforms remain the same size across a range of weights.
| Tags: decorative/display, sans, chamfered, consistent counters, futuristic/sci-fi, modular, polygonal, rectangular, spurless, straight-sided | |
| Design: | Oscar Cobo |
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| Publisher: | Oscar Cobo |
| Characters: | Latin |
| Released: | 2018-11-21 |
| Licensing: | Free for non-commercial use, Free for commercial use |
| Info/fonts: | behance.net |
A chamfered, polygonal sans.
| Tags: decorative/display, sans, chamfered, futuristic/sci-fi, modular, monoline, polygonal, rectangular, straight-sided, variable posture | |
| Design: | Oscar Cobo |
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| Publisher: | Oscar Cobo |
| Characters: | Latin |
| Released: | 2018-06-20 |
| Licensing: | Paid/commercial |
| Info/fonts: | behance.net |
A variable incarnation of Wim Crouwel’s New Alphabet system for parametric typesetting.
| Tags: decorative/display, sans, chamfered, futuristic/sci-fi, modular, monoline, monospaced, polygonal, rectangular, spurless, squooshed, straight-sided, unicase, unusual variation | |
| Design: | Rafael de Azevedo |
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| Publisher: | TipoTipos |
| Characters: | Latin (limited) |
| Released: | 2017-10-14 |
| Licensing: | Open source |
| Info/fonts: | github.com |
A proof-of-concept experiment using font variations to communicate a continuous range of emotional expression. The font only supports an very limited character set (just enough to spell “emotional”).
| Tags: decorative/display, sans, script, calligraphic, handwriting, proof of concept, monoline, neo-grotesque, polygonal, retractable serifs, rounded, sharp, unusual variation, wavy/wiggly, woman-designed | |
| Design: | Promphan Suksumek |
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| Publisher: | Promphan Suksumek |
| Characters: | Latin (limited) |
| Released: | 2017-09-14 |
| Licensing: | Open source |
| Info/fonts: | emotionaltype.org |
Monotype’s first variable font demo, based on Kairos Sans.
| Tags: decorative/display, sans, chamfered, monoline, polygonal, rectangular, straight-sided, variable posture, vertex spread, wood type | |
| Design: | Terrance Weinzierl |
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| Publisher: | Monotype |
| Characters: | Latin (limited) |
| Released: | 2016-11-17 |
| Licensing: | Free for non-commercial use |
| Info/fonts: | github.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 |