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Re: Variable fonts, axes values
Useful and meaningful to whom? In what situations? A useful and meaningful selection of instances for a signage project is likely to be different from that for a product design project, which is diff…1 -
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: 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: 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
