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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)

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More Fit »

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.

Dithr!

My friend and frequent collaborator Chris Lewis just released a free iOS app Dithr. It dithers photos and video with fun pixilated patterns and retro color palettes, recalling the computer games of my youth!

I find myself taking pictures and videos of mundane, everyday objects (radio towers, ceiling fans, and even plain white walls), just to see what wild colors and pixely gradients I can get the app to produce.

Here are some photos I’ve taken with the app. I encourage you to give it a download at dithr.io, and you’ll even catch a sneak peek of my typeface Output!