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Re: Variable fonts, axes values
Absolutely! And her 2018 Alphabettes article is still one of the freshest pieces of thinking about possible ways to present multi-axis design spaces to users. The spider’s web visualisation is a grea…3 -
Re: Variable fonts, axes values
I feel like this discussion is too fixated on the slider interface. A font only offering 300 and 350 axis values but restricting anything in between by specifying a step size for that axis might make…3 -
Re: Variable fonts, axes values
@"Florian Pircher" of course this could be problematic for software support. The support of variable fonts is still an ongoing process, if we are proposing improvements is better now than l…1 -
Re: Type design hot takes
Nowadays designers work too much by numbers. Equal stem widths for example. As if they don't trust their eyes anymore.9 -
Re: Variable fonts, axes values
Another simple solution: let the user stretch the slider, changing the step size. By the way, Florian has a very good point that axes are not always linear.2 -
Re: Metric and em size
The em is the body height of the type that is scaled to the text size in applications. So, for example, if type is set to 10pt in an application, it is the em height of the font that equals 10 points…1 -
Re: Type design hot takes
Too many type designers design type for type designers and not graphic designers10 -
Re: Variable fonts, axes values
8-bit color is not sufficient. All you need is a gradient or a dark area and you will immediately start to see “stair step” artifacts. Also, 0–255 for each RGB component does fully cover 16.777.216 …2 -
Re: Variable fonts, axes values
It seems to me we’re still talking about problems of interaction with design spaces, not problems of design spaces.2 -
Re: Variable fonts, axes values
Because the CSS weight range is defined as a number between 1 and 1000, so within the defined weight range of a given variable font as mapped to the CSS weight scale, any number is meaningful at the …1
