I’ve worked on a small tool to animate and record variable fonts. The Variable Font Animator – A drawing interface makes animating and testing variable fonts easy and fun. You can even record videos directly in your browser. There is no need to take a screen capture anymore. That way you can specify the final video format on the fly.

https://tdbr.xyz/font-animator

Font in use: Recursive by @arrowtype

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@jeanboehm @arrowtype This rules. I would love it if I could specify the animation speed with a number of milliseconds, instead of just a slider.
@AurekFonts @arrowtype thanks for your suggestion 🙌 I will see what I can do to achieve this!

@jeanboehm Awesome! Also, my suggestion took up more words in my first reply, so I want to reemphasize the other part—

This tool rules! Thank you for making it!

@jeanboehm Really cool, thank you for making it! I could only use the recorder in Chrome (which is logical), and the converter does a bit of compression on non-black/white fonts. They do work though, so big props for that!

And so many options! My only addition would perhaps be a hex selector for the colours, I now did those through the inspector.

@typearture Thank you! There are still a lot of things which can be optimized. A mp4 export would be nice. I will definitely try to improve some things in the future 🌝
@jeanboehm @arrowtype take a search about Ellen Lupton type crimes
@nitrofurano @jeanboehm what crime are you accusing us of? 😄
@arrowtype its a serious issue, Helen Lupton wrote a book about it - https://sarahdali.wordpress.com/2015/11/18/crimes-against-typography/
Crimes Against Typography

In Ellen Lupton’s book Thinking with Type, she points out a variety of different things she consider to be ‘crimes against typography’, things that graphic designers should be wea…

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