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Typefaces that use font variation technology for design characteristics beyond the typical implementations of weight, width, slant, etc.
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 |
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 |