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    ERIK VAN BLOKLAND-Interpolation Workshop

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    Variable fonts use designspaces to allow for interpolation between font masters along different axes like weight, width, and optical size. Designing variable fonts involves considering how letter shapes and hints should change gradually across the weight axis to maintain legibility. Adding intermediate masters can help reduce errors during interpolation by keeping angle and spacing relationships consistent between shapes.

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    ERIK VAN BLOKLAND-Interpolation Workshop

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    Variable fonts use designspaces to allow for interpolation between font masters along different axes like weight, width, and optical size. Designing variable fonts involves considering how letter shapes and hints should change gradually across the weight axis to maintain legibility. Adding intermediate masters can help reduce errors during interpolation by keeping angle and spacing relationships consistent between shapes.

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    Variable fonts use designspaces to allow for interpolation between font masters along different axes like weight, width, and optical size. Designing variable fonts involves considering how letter shapes and hints should change gradually across the weight axis to maintain legibility. Adding intermediate masters can help reduce errors during interpolation by keeping angle and spacing relationships consistent between shapes.

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    ERIK VAN BLOKLAND-Interpolation Workshop

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    Variable fonts use designspaces to allow for interpolation between font masters along different axes like weight, width, and optical size. Designing variable fonts involves considering how letter shapes and hints should change gradually across the weight axis to maintain legibility. Adding intermediate masters can help reduce errors during interpolation by keeping angle and spacing relationships consistent between shapes.

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    Designspaces

    Data structure where we can put stuff into fonts and axes
    Drawing for interpolation

    Design process with client


    Start out giving them a variable font so they can tinker with weights and decide which
    weight they would like to work with

    Variable font axes


    Weight
    Width
    Optical
    Have to draw a small version of every master you have
    Ends up making an 8-master cube

    Weight = 2 masters
    Width = 4
    Optical = 8

    Pablo Impellari
    Lucas de Groot drew Thesis
    Thought about what happens with the weight axis stems and how to make it better
    The increase of weights would be a gradual curve that gets more extreme as you
    increase weight

    GX Model = Graphic Extended (1991)


    Developed by Apple
    Unicode
    Steve Jobs came in and killed it
    GX has been part of all Apple operating systems
    GX is based on how TrueType Hints work
    Mike Reid
    Tom Rickner
    Part of the original Truetype team
    Matthew Carter made “Skia”

    Variable Fonts came around in 2016


    Google Fonts asked “can we make these fonts smaller?”
    Behdad Estabod
    Dusted off GX specification
    Took idea of how GX works and turned it into variable fonts
    Multiple Masters
    Lc Bc

    Lw Bw

    Variable
    Slant Optical Reg

    Light Default Bold

    Inline

    Everything is based off of the default

    Italic Bezier Placement


    Place anchors on extremes, but then you have a looooong curve that falls flat in the
    Middle.
    Put points at an angle where it makes sense
    *Round corners don’t always need points on extremes*

    If you’re interpolating between and narrow S and a wide S with a point in the middle, the
    off-curve ratio and the angle must remain the same, but it won’t work
    Try to reduce th error as much as you can from the masters
    If that doesn’t work, you could make a middle master for the S

    The angle of the point and off-curves must be the same and/or the ratio from one off-curve to
    the point to the other off-curve to the point must be the same: a/b = c/d

    Adding an intermediate master is a powerful solution

    MutatorMath
    Part of Superpolator for many years
    Variable font math is similar to MutatorMath

    Hinting
    On an iOS app, it doesn’t make a difference
    For Windows XP, China uses it, you will have to hint

    Grades
    What is a Designspace file?
    It’s XML
    If you open it up, you can see what’s going on

    ROBOFONT SHORTCUT TO GO TO DIFFERENT LETTER IN EDITOR


    Cmd+J

    Skateboard
    “Rules” in the Skateboard editor
    All masters would need the alternate that’s swapped out

    Axis Map

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