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A variable font with an axis to adjust vertical stem widths but not horizontals, made available to members of the Font of the Month Club.
| Tags: decorative/display, slab serif, horizontal stress, straight-sided, wood type | |
| Design: | David Jonathan Ross |
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| Publisher: | DJR, Font of the Month Club |
| Characters: | Latin, Vietnamese |
| Released: | 2017-09-29 |
| Licensing: | Trial, Paid/commercial |
| Info/fonts: | djr.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 |
A variable test font based on Cinzel and Cinzel Decorative. The swash axis gradually replaces the uppercase with swash glyphs and the lowercase with larger capitals.
| Tags: decorative/display, serif, all caps, calligraphic, feature variations, inscriptional, ornamented, spur serifs, swash, unusual variation | |
| Design: | Natanael Gama, Adam Twardoch |
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| Publisher: | Adam Twardoch |
| Characters: | Latin |
| Released: | 2017-05-04 |
| Licensing: | Open source |
| Info/fonts: | github.com |
A variable version of Nunito, offered as an Early Access beta release via Google Fonts.
| Tags: decorative/display, body text, sans, monoline, neo-grotesque, rounded | |
| Design: | Vernon Adams |
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| Publisher: | |
| Characters: | Latin, Vietnamese |
| Released: | 2017-04-06 |
| Licensing: | Open source |
| Info/fonts: | fonts.google.com |
Decovar is an experimental typeface with many unusual axes that allow for a large range of stylistic variation.
| Tags: decorative/display, serif, slab serif, sans, geometric, all caps, Art Deco, fat-face, inline, inscriptional, proof of concept, monoline, ornamented, retractable serifs, rounded, sharp, spur serifs, soft corners, stub serifs, unusual variation, wedge serif | |
| Design: | David Berlow |
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| Publisher: | Font Bureau |
| Characters: | Latin (limited) |
| Released: | 2017-02-07 |
| Licensing: | Open source |
| Info/fonts: | github.com |
The world’s first variable color font release, containing only one character: the pile of poo emoji ?. (If the poo appears all black and/or doesn’t move with the slider, your browser doesn’t fully support variable color fonts yet.)
| Tags: decorative/display, animation, cartoon, color, dingbats, proof of concept, unusual variation | |
| Design: | Roel Nieskens, David Jonathan Ross |
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| Publisher: | PixelAmbacht |
| Characters: | dingbats/emoji |
| Released: | 2017-01-24 |
| Licensing: | Open source |
| Info/fonts: | github.com |
Fit was designed across a large range of widths to fill up any space it occupies while maintaining a constant amount of space within and between letters. The Hebrew extension was drawn by Oded Ezer and the Armenian extension by Gor Jihanian.
| Tags: decorative/display, sans, all caps, consistent counters, futuristic/sci-fi, inserat, modular, rectangular, spurless, straight-sided | |
| Design: | David Jonathan Ross, Oded Ezer, Gor Jihanian |
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| Publisher: | DJR |
| Characters: | Latin, Cyrillic, Greek, Hebrew, Armenian, Vietnamese |
| Released: | 2017-01-11 |
| Updated: | 2019-01-22 |
| Licensing: | Trial, Paid/commercial |
| Info/fonts: | djr.com |
Amstelvar is an exercise in variable weight, contrast, and proportions. Positive and negative forms can be manipulated as separate axes, as well as a large array of other variables. It is an experimental work in progress so can produce unusual results.
| Tags: decorative/display, body text, serif, slab serif, consistent counters, fat-face, proof of concept, multiplexed, multiplexed weight, optical sizes, retractable extenders, retractable serifs, sharp, unusual variation, variable lowercase height, wedge serif | |
| Design: | David Berlow |
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| Publisher: | Font Bureau |
| Characters: | Latin, Cyrillic, Greek, Vietnamese |
| Released: | 2016-12-16 |
| Updated: | 2021-06-03 |
| Licensing: | Open source |
| Info/fonts: | github.com |
Buffalo Gals comes from the first generation of GX variable fonts in the early 1990s, more recently revived with OpenType font variations.
| Tags: decorative/display, slab serif, animation, horizontal stress, ornamented, wood type | |
| Design: | Tom Rickner |
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| Publisher: | Rickner Type |
| Characters: | Latin (limited) |
| Released: | 2016-12-05 |
| Licensing: | Free for non-commercial use |
| Info/fonts: | github.com |
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 |
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 |
Zycon demonstrates the flexibility of variable fonts to manipulate forms beyond the typical axes of typographic variation. It comes from the first generation of GX variable fonts in the early 1990s, and was more recently revived to test support for OpenType font variations technology.
| Tags: decorative/display, animation, cartoon, dingbats, proof of concept, rotation, unusual variation | |
| Design: | David Berlow |
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| Publisher: | Font Bureau |
| Characters: | dingbats/emoji |
| Released: | 2016-09-08 |
| Licensing: | Open source |
| Info/fonts: | github.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 |
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 |