Variable Font Design

可変フォント・デザイン / 2016– / Technique / Digital Typography

Gives one font continuous axes of variation, moving weight, width and slant in response to content and data.

Continuous weights / Variable axes / Data-driven type / Type in motion

Dictionary entry

Best used for: Comparing historical works and their conditions · Deciding which principles survive translation to today's media
Type: Observe the type and composition of reference works
Composition: Extract the one principle that steers the eye
Material: Verify the technique's own materials, process and support
Caution: Don't make the morphing the show. Decide legibility and the meaning of the change first.
Further study: OpenType Font Variations / Climate Crisis font / axis-based typography