From there, we can confidently define a creative brief.
We consider the purpose, expression, accessibility, functionality, languages, and more. INT: What design decisions do you have to make when creating a variable font?Īs with static fonts, no two variable font projects are the same, so we start by defining the requirements. That’s led to an increased interest in our variable library fonts, but also more conversations around custom variable fonts. Variable fonts broaden what our clients – users and designers – can do with type, whether it’s very expressive and bold, or simple and functional. Since then, we’ve released three more variable font families, Objektiv, Mokoko, and Aktiv Grotesk, with another one coming out next month. We released our first variable library font, Venn, in 2018. These updates have made variable fonts much more accessible to designers.įrom Dalton Maag’s perspective, we’ve been experimenting with variable fonts since their early days. Figma and Quark Xpress also have support on their roadmaps. Support for variable fonts has improved over the last couple of years, now covering all major web browsers, operating systems and key applications like Adobe InDesign, Illustrator, Photoshop, and Sketch.
Since then, type designers have created hundreds of variable fonts, some experimental, testing the boundaries of the technology, and others highly functional, aimed at improving web performance.
This all changed when Apple, Adobe, Microsoft, Google, and a few independent foundries and typeface design studios, including Dalton Maag, came together to announce that OpenType Font Variations (better known as variable fonts) would be added to the OpenType specification mid-2016. Adobe abandoned multiple master fonts by 2000, and GX Variations only ever had minimal support. Adobe and Apple independently developed multiple master fonts and GX variations in the early 1990s, both were axis-based technologies similar to variable fonts. Variable font technology is actually not that new. It's Nice That: When did variable fonts come to be, and why have they taken off recently?
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