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Variable Fonts: making the promise a reality
Bob Taylor, Monotype’s Font Technologies Director, offers his views on the promise of Variable Fonts and shares how Monotype and the tech industry are bringing this promise to reality.
Get started with variable fonts
Variable fonts are a new font format offering unprecedented flexibility. And they are with us now. A story by Richard Rutter.
The Font Wars, a story by David Lemon
From typesetting machines to color emoji – a story about the history and evolution of font formats written by David Lemon, the former senior manager of type development at Adobe.
Think You Know What OpenType Is? Think Again!
Compared to its predecessors PostScript Type 1 and TrueType fonts, OpenType is vastly more sophisticated, with features that make a font seem more like software (which they are). Text by Ilene Strizver.
Thoughts on OpenType Font Variations
Matthew Butterick analyzes new OpenType font format and questions the real motives behind Apple, Google, Adobe and Microsoft supporting this technology. Via Typewolf.
Variable fonts – the future of (web) type
Roel Nieskens tries to figure out what variable fonts would mean for web developers. Published at typographica.org.
Adventures in typography – a great flowering
A summary of “Font Variations”, a new addition to the OpenType specification announced by Apple, Google, Microsoft and Adobe earlier this month. By Robin Rendle.
OpenType Variable Fonts announced
Today, new version of the OpenType format was presented to the public by Adobe, Apple, Google and Microsoft at the ATypI conference in Warsaw. (more…)
Finely tuned typography: sweating the small stuff
Watch as Dan Rhatigan shows how to improve that final 5% of your typography with the help of OpenType features.
OpenType.tools for type designers
OpenType.tools is an online toolbox that helps you automatically generate OpenType features for your fonts. (more…)