David Březina – Variable Fonts (original) (raw)

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Gridlite

​A modular pixel typeface with adjustable foreground and background patterning.

Tags: decorative/display, sans, modular, monospaced, multi-line, multiplexed, multiplexed weight, ornamented, pixel, spurless, straight-sided, unusual variation
Design: David Březina
Publisher: Rosetta Type Foundry
Characters: Latin, Cyrillic, Greek
Released: 2020-07-02
Updated: 2021-04-08
Licensing: Trial, Paid/commercial
Info/fonts: rosettatype.com

Adapter

A simple sans with Pan-European character support. Expansions were released for Hebrew on November 26, 2019, and Arabic on March 11, 2020.

Tags: body text, sans, feature variations, multiplexed, multiplexed posture, neo-grotesque, optical sizes, variable posture, woman-designed
Design: William Montrose, Sláva Jevčinová, David Březina
Publisher: Rosetta Type Foundry
Characters: Latin, Greek, Cyrillic, Vietnamese, Hebrew, Arabic
Released: 2019-05-21
Updated: 2020-03-10
Licensing: Trial, Paid/commercial
Info/fonts: rosettatype.com

Handjet

​Handjet started as an exercise with design students to make a typeface for handset printers and their 32-pixel vertical matrix, but grew into a large multi-script design.

In 2019, Google sponsored and extension and open-source release of the typeface. Consultants for the project include Maria Doreuli (Cyrillic), Irene Vlachou (Greek), Borna Izadpanah (Arabic), Khajag Apelian (Armenian), and Meir Sadan (Hebrew).

The font is provided with a warning that “variable fonts are relatively new and Handjet sometimes challenges the limits. You might get unpredictable, yet beautiful and somewhat amusing, rendering errors in Adobe software. It works well in browsers as far as we know.”

Tags: decorative/display, sans, modular, multiplexed, multiplexed weight, pixel, polygonal, straight-sided, unusual variation
Design: David Březina
Publisher: Rosetta Type Foundry
Characters: Latin, Vietnamese, Cyrillic, Greek, Armenian, Arabic, Hebrew, dingbats/emoji
Released: 2018-12-04
Updated: 2021-05-12
Licensing: Open source
Info/fonts: rosettatype.com

Marlik