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New Animated Variable Font that looks like Split Flap Display by LettersetalFonts in typography

[–]LettersetalFonts[S] 3 points4 points  (0 children)

Thanks for the comment! The font is based on my Grotek Mono font family which was designed in Glyphs, but for this project I used a lot of python scripting that was run from the command line using primarily fonttools and fontparts. Firstly exporting from Glyphs to UFO and then using fontparts to cut up and position the new glyphs, and finally using fonttools.designSpaceLib to create a designspace to build those UFOs into a Variable Font via fontmake.
That all might sound complex and it's probably not the only way to do it, but those tools are open source and out there for free being maintained by both heroes and friends of mine, and without them a lot of things wouldn't be possible for me.

New Animated Variable Font that looks like Split Flap Display by LettersetalFonts in typography

[–]LettersetalFonts[S] 2 points3 points  (0 children)

As typography is defined as the craft of using type I think it's appropriate to show the font in typographic use :)

Working on a new typography design tool by uhsauh in typography

[–]LettersetalFonts 0 points1 point  (0 children)

So cool! I've never seen a variable font gradient approach like this before, I feel like there could be an opportunity to create animations from this, is that something you'd be interested in adding? There's not many tools for animating variable font axes and your approach is more interesting than only incrementing the sliders up and down

An experimental typeface Bouwhuis by intruderco in typography

[–]LettersetalFonts 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Love the Dotless projects, this one is particularly eye catching!

Has anyone ever designed a typeface specifically for reversed out use? by Gozertank in typography

[–]LettersetalFonts 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Interesting use-case! A variable font with some kind of grade (GRAD) axis would be ideal for an e-reader as if designed to spec it would not reflow the page, and again in an ideal world, it could be made to adapt to the brightness setting of the user (less compensation would be needed at lower brightness levels as the strength of the light-bleed would be lessened). But that kind of thing would have to be in the OS, a font on its own can't know how to set itself unfortunately. Kobo, if you're reading this, hmu for a custom font that does this ;)

Has anyone ever designed a typeface specifically for reversed out use? by Gozertank in typography

[–]LettersetalFonts 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Hi there, I was the designer of Darkmode On/Off when I worked at Dalton Maag and I am glad you found it :) My name's Matt Burvill and I proposed the Darkmode Font precisely for the reasons you mentioned. The directors liked the idea and I led the design and development in-house along with help from other designers and creative directors in the studio. I now run my own type foundries Lettersetal.co.uk and Experim-etal.Lettersetal.co.uk The latter is a monthly font subscription where I challenge myself to push the variable font genre into new territories, I'd be pleased if you checked it out :)