![]() I mean, who doesn’t want to see fonts used to depict a running horse? SVG fontsĪnother emerging font type, that is also supported in InDesign, is the OpenType SVG Font. Check out for some of the more creative and crazy uses of this new found flexibility. Inventive type designers aren’t only restricting themselves to these standard controls. Only with a variable font selected do we get shown the extra sliders to customise then in this new way. In InDesign 2020, try searching for Acumin Variable Conceptto see an OpenType Variable font on the page. Paragraph and Character styles allow us to apply consistency along with this new found flexibility. With all these options available you wouldn’t want to over do it and that is where the skill of the text designer comes in. Creativity with variablesįont designers can decide which aspects they allow users to adapt in their variable fonts by choosing whether to open up aspects such as weight, width, or italic. Warning: If you are like me, you may then spend up to half an hour just moving sliders and smiling. ![]() You can try out some variable fonts right now on the website. Greater choice, more flexibility and smaller files sizes are a benefit for digital too. Plus there is much more scope for minor adjustments to text perhaps for fitting a headline or for finding that perfect weight of a font for your latest layout, somewhere just between the regular and the semi-bold… Instead of supplying a group of files, one for each font, with variable fonts all the font variations are described in just one font file. Font choices were a bit more labour intensive back then. ![]() The word font comes the French word fondre ‘to melt’ as, in lead type, each font and size was cast from metal and had its own tray in the print shop. From this typeface a number of different fonts can be derived e.g. The typeface is the name of the overall style of the characters e.g. Fun FontFact! – the difference between a font and a typeface… ![]()
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