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Re: Variable fonts, axes values
Indeed. The wght axis is explicitly weight, not emphasis or other typographic articulation. I must remember to go give Simon a hard time about this on Twitter. :#2 -
Re: Variable fonts, axes values
@"Florian Pircher" Exactly. Any specific location in the design space is an instance or, if you like, a potential instance waiting to be instantiated by being selected and displayed. Named …1 -
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
