Mastodawn

Slap Font change font variations while slapping your MacBook!
Thanks tonnozfpv #slapmac #variablefonts

Fontra is an open-source, browser-based, cross-platform, variable-first font editor, developed by Black[Foundry] and Just van Rossum with support from Google. fontra.xyz #OpenSource #FontEditors #VariableFonts #VariableFirst

Fontra

Fontra

zeldman Mar 19

Fontra is an open-source, browser-based, cross-platform, variable-first font editor, developed by Black[Foundry] and Just van Rossum with support from Google.

https://fontra.xyz/ #OpenSource #FontEditors #VariableFonts #VariableFirst

Matthijs Sluiter Mar 6

Andrew Bellamy from the Otherwhere Collective built Relay, a fontdrop website. It’s in beta stage and he asks for your feedback (via mail):

https://otherwherecollective.com/relay-beta/

#webfonts #variablefonts #fontdrop

Relay Beta

This is a beta testing environment.

Otherwhere Collective

Aleksandra Samuļenkova Feb 19

Isn’t @fontra’s multi-source editing tool the prettiest thing you saw today?
#typedesign #fonteditor #fonts #variablefonts

Aleksandra Samuļenkova Feb 19

I wrote an article for Type Directors Club about the variable fonts projects and tools I admire.
Featuring the fonts by the typo.social citizens @fontspectrum, @typearture, @letterror, and @AnnaKhorash among others.
https://tdc.org/news/movement-matters-variable-fonts-new-tonal-expressions/
#typedesign #typography #variablefonts #fonts

Movement Matters: Variable Fonts’ New Tonal Expressions - Type Directors Club

When Type Directors Club asked me to share type design projects I admire, I assumed that focusing on my immediate surroundings would make the task less intimidating.

Type Directors Club

Font Spectrum Feb 19

Contrast Foundry made a write-up on “How to design a variable font”.
#ContrastFoundry #VariableFonts

All three of our fonts are featured as examples 🥳
#PurpleHaze #ElectricBlue and #SilverCoil

https://contrastfoundry.com/projects/how-to-design-a-variable-font

What are variable fonts and how to design them?

Guide to variable fonts: from font master to interpolation axes. How variable fonts work, how to build variable fonts and why do you need them.

Contrast Foundry

Libre Graphics Meeting Feb 19

Out of the Black and White: Unveiling the LGM 2026 Visual Identity

The black-and-white placeholder is gone. The new visual identity for LGM 2026 is live. We re:wired classical halftone printing into a real-time digital effect. The new design is built on custom WebGL2 shaders, algorithmic variable fonts, and animated screen angles.

Read the full announcement: https://libregraphicsmeeting.org/2026/news/2026-02-19_0001-design-update/

#LGM26 #LGM2026 #LibreGraphicsMeeting #LGM #WebGL #VariableFonts

Font Spectrum Feb 13

Thank you so much @AleksandraSamulenkova for featuring #SilverCoil in your #TypeDirectorsClub story on moving type.

Movement Matters: Variable Fonts’ New Tonal Expressions

Tiny fact check: “While a built-in slider to move between masters might seem like a basic requirement for contemporary font editors, it only appears to be available in Fontra.”

@fontlab has native slider(s) since version 6.
In version 5, one could even find one in the Metrics Window, that was the #MultipleMaster technique though, and not #VariableFonts.

https://tdc.org/news/movement-matters-variable-fonts-new-tonal-expressions/