Variable Fonts

233 点作者 cellis超过 1 年前

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Gualdrapo超过 1 年前

Some cool typefaces, but "Corona Face Impact" hit hard.<a href="https://v-fonts.com/fonts/coronafaceimpact" rel="nofollow">https://v-fonts.com/fonts/coronafaceimpact</a>

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simlevesque超过 1 年前

I wasted two days recently trying to make a variable font using free software. The only ressource I found is a youtube video telling me to use a python script from a google drive.It didn't work despite many many tries. I have two woffs of the same font that I bought and I wanna make a variable woff2 with only these two variants.I couldn't believe that there isn't a clear way to do this.Here's the youtube video: <a href="https://youtu.be/xoQuWARCUWI" rel="nofollow">https://youtu.be/xoQuWARCUWI</a>

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mikae1超过 1 年前

Here's Google Fonts filtered for variable only: <a href="https://fonts.google.com/?vfonly=true" rel="nofollow">https://fonts.google.com/?vfonly=true</a>

kibwen超过 1 年前

I'm torn. Variable fonts are neat, but they also lay bare how woefully complicated every single layer of our software stack is where even displaying a single glyph requires interpreting a Turing-complete programming language. As I get older I increasingly just want a more transparent and understandable system that does less, even if that means giving up bells and whistles like automagic font kerning.

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ashton314超过 1 年前

I think variable fonts are really neat—but I'm curious to know what professional typographers think about them. Take Concourse [1] by Matthew Butterick for example—if you click on the "PDF" link at the top, you'll get a PDF sample of the Concourse font, and on page 7 Butterick talks about how the font has been carefully duplexed so that different weights always take up the same amount of space. With a variable-width font, presumably you'd be able to adjust the tracking as well as the weight to make them match, but maybe not? And maybe not automatically? I dunno.Do any professional typographers have opinions on the pros/cons of variable fonts?[1]: <a href="https://mbtype.com/fonts/concourse/sample.html" rel="nofollow">https://mbtype.com/fonts/concourse/sample.html</a>

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aquir超过 1 年前

Great website but font prices are out of hand! Found one that looks awesome (West) but it's 350EUR if you want all styles! If you want Regular+Medium+Bold, that's still 150EUR. I bought Berkeley Mono back then for $75 and that is like the maximum what I would pay for a font. I am not a commercial user btw.

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CharlesW超过 1 年前

Wow, what a cool resource. There are some beautiful fonts in here.I dutifully clicked "Load 30 more" 12 times to see them all, but it'd be really helpful to be able to search and filter, and maybe "Load all".

cellis超过 1 年前

I originally submitted this article because I saw the NYT (maybe?) started using them. If you can view this: <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2024/01/28/world/asia/china-economy-job-market-young-adults.html" rel="nofollow">https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2024/01/28/world/asia/ch...</a>, I had to squint and saw that, "yes! that's a different 'F', and that's a different 'L'". It made so much sense, I thought "surely they didn't hire an artist to handwrite these captions. They must be using some kind of 'variable font'", and I googled just that and this site popped up. :) But then, maybe that's just an artist that works on these sorts of presentations.

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gnabgib超过 1 年前

Small discussion in 2018 as a ShowHN [0] (61 points, 13 comments)[0]: <a href="https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18129474">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18129474</a>

alberth超过 1 年前

Can you subset variable fonts?One way to reduce the size of a font file is the remove all characters not needed (eg non-Latin characters)Is it possible to subset a variable font?Font Squirel is great at subletting non-variable fonts.<a href="https://www.fontsquirrel.com/tools/webfont-generator" rel="nofollow">https://www.fontsquirrel.com/tools/webfont-generator</a>

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unsungNovelty超过 1 年前

My first exposure to variable fonts was thanks to this article by Lisa Staudinger - <a href="https://uxdesign.cc/uniwidth-typefaces-for-interface-design-b6e8078dc0f7?gi=2096b94b9540" rel="nofollow">https://uxdesign.cc/uniwidth-typefaces-for-interface-design-...</a>Brilliant article.

frognumber超过 1 年前

Can someone explain the difference between multiple master fonts and variable fonts?I found MM fonts to be super-nice in the nineties. I could emphasize things and keep a very nice visual hierarchy while maintaining very nice stylistic consistency.I've been confused as to why we can't have them in 2023.These aren't nearly as pretty as the fonts I used close to three decades ago. Fonts programs are copyrightable (the things which render the bitmap), but font glyphs are not. Even if they were, there are plenty of beautifully-typeset books from hundreds of years ago. Digitizing those should not be hard.

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kragen超过 1 年前

i prefer calling this concept by its original name, "metafont", in part because "variable font" is sometimes used as lazy shorthand for "variable-pitch font", i.e. proportional rather than fixed-pitch like a typewriter. on the other hand, "metafont" is also the name of a particular piece of free software for this purpose

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ayuhito超过 1 年前

Fontsource[0] is also an easy way to self-host variable fonts via NPM packages.[0] <a href="https://fontsource.org/?variable=true" rel="nofollow">https://fontsource.org/?variable=true</a>

lobsterthief超过 1 年前

Very cool! A filtering interface would be extremely helpful. Currently viewing on mobile.

cal85超过 1 年前

It would be so much more useful if it let you change the size of the previews.

antiquark超过 1 年前

Needs a "monospacicity" slider.