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• Post #1454861

  For anyone using variable fonts in Affinity design apps: ⚠️ BEWARE ⚠️ Affinity applies kerning values from a variable font’s default instance (usually a moderate “Regular” style) to *all* variants of that font, even if it includes design variants with drastically different kerning. It’s easy to miss in variable fonts with relatively limited stylistic ranges (where kerning doesn’t change much throughout), but it’s quite problematic for variable fonts that cover more expansive ranges of variation.

• Post #954993

  Designer: Writes a nice 3-sentence email asking about using some of my fonts. Me: Replies with a 600-word essay explaining every possible thing there is to know about those fonts.

• Post #954990

  @nazhamid I’ve had Lauweriks up on the site for years, but I’m glad you found it and like it – thank you! The wild 6 and 9 came straight from the source material, which is still hard to believe is from the early 1900s. @MathieuLommen recently published a related article: https://typo.social/@MathieuLommen/114760068190950701 At some point I also added more tame stylistic alternates for a client who wanted the option to not always be so zany.🤪 I’ll have to add those to the samples on the HEX sit...

• Post #954986

  HEX launched 7 years ago tonight, on Halloween 2018. To celebrate, I’m releasing a preliminary version of an experimental typeface I started even before that … Shop Sans is a typeface for setting text on circles and curved baselines. Its ‘Curve’ variable font allows for bending type smoothly along arched paths, with adjustable curvature. The initial version 0.1 is now available from @futurefonts, with more updates and improvements coming soon: https://www.futurefonts.com/hex/shop-sans

• Post #954985

  Issue #2 of HEX News just went out, featuring the new Shop Sans typeface for setting text on curves, previews of other fonts in progress, font uses, miscellaneous personal recommendations, and more. You can read the web version here: https://hex.xyz/news/2/ Subscribe to get infrequent new issues in your email inbox or RSS reader: https://hex.xyz/news/

• Post #954983

  An interactive web experiment combining a springy-baseline hover effect with a variable font whose glyphs can flex to match the baseline’s curvature: https://hex.xyz/Shop_Sans/boing/ The CSS code is based on demos from @css with tips from @kizu yesterday: https://front-end.social/@css/116006138838064149 The variable font is Shop Sans, which I made for exactly these kinds of curved-baseline situations: https://www.futurefonts.com/hex/shop-sans It’s just CSS with a variable web font (no JavaScr...

• Post #689097

  If you’re in Portland, Oregon, tonight @futurefonts and friends are hosting a @typecon party at the Outlet studio. It’s free and open to the public. https://www.futurefonts.com/blog/582-future-fonts-friends-typecon-party Unfortunately I won’t be there, but I’m happy to see Diego Garibay’s design for the flyer uses my HEX Franklin fonts (https://www.futurefonts.com/hex/hex-franklin), including some funky manual adaptations.