This week in Fit
Fit’s amazing stacking abilities
Part of Type Network’s new Inside the Fonts series, this article by Yves Peters dives deep into the magic numbers that make Fit look super-good with super-tight linespacing. It even includes a chart of recommended line-height settings for each of Fit’s basic styles!
Communication Arts
The popular visual design magazine Communication Arts featured a gallery of Fit specimens on their website.
Slanted Magazine
The great Slanted Magazine posted a nice piece on their blog, in German and English. It even includes images of two of my personal favorite aspects of Fit, its Vietnamese and Russian!
Many thanks to the folks who were behind these posts! I am very grateful for their work, and to everyone who is helping to get the word out about Fit.
Fit Presentation Images
One of the reasons I released my typeface Fit is because I thought it would be a good demonstration of the new OpenType variable font format. In order to help explain the concept, I’ve made some images that you can use in presentations or lectures to demonstrate Fit’s capabilities, and by extension, one of the many ways that variable fonts can change the way we set type.
Feel free to download these images and use them in your talks (with credit or a link to djr.com/fit, please). And in the spirit of the design, I made versions that fit the dimensions of both 1024×768 and 1280×720 projectors!
Text fitting demo
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A waterfall of widths
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Word length comparison
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Adapting to word length (animation)
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Draggable text at djr.com/fit (animation)
Decovar, by David Berlow
I had the privilege of playing a small part in the development of David Berlow’s Decovar, a mindblowingly complex multistyle typeface designed to experiment with the new OpenType variable font format. Check it out »
ATypI 2016 Interview
Last September, I sat down for a brief interview with Liron Lavi Turkenich at the ATypI conference in Warsaw, Poland. ATypI has just published the video (along with a handful of others), where you can hear about everything from my thoughts on type licenses to my agricultural ambitions.