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Over 100 fonts were made available including a new website interface to see the design space of the variable fonts.

Available in 3 styles: Outlined, Rounded and Sharp. Each provides 4 stylistic attributes: Weight, Fill, Optical size, and Grade.

Here are four examples where designers have used their project as a typographic playground, exploring the possibilities of variable fonts within a set of self-imposed constraints.

For the next few months, Type Network is going to take some in-depth looks at the still-developing world of variable fonts from a number of different perspectives, from the technical to the creative.

InDesign (16.2) can now automatically map the optical size value in variable fonts to the font size you set, for the text in your document.

Loïc Sander and Jiang Jiang explain details around the type use on Apple’s software platforms and announce changes like the move to variable fonts and new CSS font family names for system fonts.

yourtypeface.com is a variable typeface experiment that enables you to design a typeface from the proportions and forced emotion of your face. Look surprised or uptight, yawn or smile, and let your face design your own typeface. Download it and use it freely for any project you’d like.

“If you’re using an OpenType font with variable options (like weight, width, slant, optical size, etc.), a new button will appear in the Inspector to launch the Variable Font Options popover. In there, you’ll see a slider for each option (as defined by the font), letting you tweak your type ’til your heart’s content.”

An OpenType variable font is one in which the equivalent of multiple individual fonts can be compactly packaged within a single font file. This is done by defining variations within the font, which constitute a single- or multi-axis design space within which many font instances can be interpolated.