Yesterday I learned about an InDesign plugin that makes using variable fonts much easier. The values ​​on an axis (for example, the weight axis) can be easily applied to individual words, lines of text, or entire paragraphs.

Just tried it out with Salou! 💥

👍 Great work by the foundry HAL Typefaces.

➡️ Download:
https://type.hanli.eu/typepad-manual/

🧑‍💻 There were a few updates on #FontDrop recently, many small adjustments but also two big ones:

1️⃣ – Performance
You can now drop your 15MB CJK #fonts on FontDrop! without freezing the browser. There is now a "Load more" functionality for the rendering of the glyphs. Only this first 1.000 glyphs get rendered on initial loading.

➡️ https://fontdrop.info/

It is just a small thing in #fontdrop — for variable fonts FontDrop will now also show the specific axis values for a predifined instance (this was not shown before).

➡️ https://fontdrop.info/

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✅ Added another little exrtra on #fontdrop : There is a copy to clipboard button now for #unicode glyphs in the glyphs overview for quickly copying characters.

https://fontdrop.info/

There is a new subpage on #fontdrop -- Advance Width Report:

It sorts the glyphs of a given font by width.

There are predefined character groups, such as uppercase and lowercase letters. There's a text input for adding additional characters and a tolerance slider for adding additional tolerance to the width groups.

https://fontdrop.info/#/awsort

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Before the summer break starts I've added a vertical metrics report to #FonttDrop!

Quickly displays and shows all the vertical metrics values of a #font file.

Check here:
https://fontdrop.info/#/vmetrics

(Bug fixing after the summer break 🙃)

Der Fontograf! -- A new type design Tool by @fontlab ?? 😜

... automatic translation can be pretty entertaining! The new big thing after Photoshop and Autocorrect-Fails.