Show HN: A simple resource for finding and trying variable fonts (v-fonts.com)

61 points by jonifico 7y ago ↗ HN

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Nice idea! I have heard of and seen some variable fonts at work in active gifs, but not in a sandbox setting. So I guess I am your target user ;-).

The demo works for me on Chrome, but not on Safari (12.0).

graedus 7y ago ↗

Agreed, nice site. On Windows 10, the sliders do not work in Firefox 62.0.3, and they do work in Chrome 69.

pbhjpbhj 7y ago ↗

Works pretty well for me in FF mobile on Android, some sliders for visual size make the font grow as you decrease the size though.

Hadn't heard of this - I like the bevel and shadow example ... reminds me of titles in Flash ...

woodrowbarlow 7y ago ↗

Firefox and Safari on Mac requires MacOS 10.13+ to display variable fonts. https://caniuse.com/#feat=variable-fonts

JunaidBhai 7y ago ↗

This is pretty cool. Is it also possible to request fonts for customizations? My http://draftss.com team can definitely use something like this in designing logos.

ozimisozim99 7y ago ↗

Wow! What is the total number of available fonts?

jonifico 7y ago ↗

Hello, more than 60 and counting :)

camdenreslink 7y ago ↗

Super cool, reminds me of metafont. See here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0LR_lBEy7qU

guessmyname 7y ago ↗

Zycon looks fun — https://v-fonts.com/fonts/zycon

maximegarcia 7y ago ↗

I like Wind VF — https://v-fonts.com/fonts/wind-vf

feniv 7y ago ↗

Anyone have a good resource on how variable fonts work? What kind of programmability does it support?

panic 7y ago ↗

This article seems to be a good introduction: https://medium.com/variable-fonts/https-medium-com-tiro-intr...

svat 7y ago ↗

See also Metaflop Modulator: https://www.metaflop.com/modulator (It has four variable fonts, each with a lot more parameters than here.)

Creating a variable font is a lot of work, which is probably why Knuth's METAFONT never took off, but it can be a lot of fun.