Examples of Non-Traditional/Unique Variable Fonts?

DaveBailey

I am looking for examples of variable font products, which posses axis outside of the weight/width realm. Doing some research to see examples of what can be done and how far the boundaries have been pushed. Not exactly the easiest search query, thought y'all might be a good resource.

Cheers!

Thomas Phinney

Well, the Google Fonts axis registry is used pretty much entirely for axes they ship in actual fonts in the Google Fonts service. See:
https://github.com/googlefonts/axisregistry

or more specifically, the .textproto (and .svg illustrations) at:
https://github.com/googlefonts/axisregistry/tree/main/Lib/axisregistry/data

Grzegorz Luk (gluk)

for example: my variable font Digiv use "circles size" and "from circle to star" axes

Thomas Phinney

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Matthew Smith

Check out v-fonts.com!

Yves Michel

Another example: my variable font "Crosswinds" available on daFont. Axis is the wind.
@gluk: Very nice font!

Florian Hardwig

What Matthew said. See especially the “unusual variation” tag for “typefaces that use font variation technology for design characteristics beyond the typical implementations of weight, width, slant, etc.”

DaveBailey

Matthew Smith said:

Check out v-fonts.com!

Oh dang, I had no idea this existed!

Thomas Phinney said:

Well, the Google Fonts axis registry is used pretty much entirely for axes they ship in actual fonts in the Google Fonts service. See:
https://github.com/googlefonts/axisregistry

or more specifically, the .textproto (and .svg illustrations) at:
https://github.com/googlefonts/axisregistry/tree/main/Lib/axisregistry/data

Very cool resource, appreciate it Thomas!

Florian Hardwig said:

What Matthew said. See especially the “unusual variation” tag for “typefaces that use font variation technology for design characteristics beyond the typical implementations of weight, width, slant, etc.”

Perfect!

Y'all are the best, thanks for sharing.

Craig Eliason

My Plenaire has a "sloppiness" axis. 

Jens Kutilek

I love Jan Šindler’s Rotor

Craig Eliason

Craig Eliason said:

My Plenaire has a "sloppiness" axis. 

Ray Larabie

I've got "body" and "counter" sliders on Kunio.

Connor Davenport

I prototyped this typeface a few months back that uses some non-standard axes.

https://www.instagram.com/p/CpkiUvSuBCy/