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https://www.recursive.design/

It’s more the case that the weight axis is common, and commonly understood, so the Google Fonts front end just leaves out any axis that isn’t Weight or Italic, I guess as a “UX” co…

This is one really good serif variable font: http://www.gt-alpina.com/ Different variable fonts use different variable “axes” – choosing what parameters can/should be variable is j…

Can you perhaps say more about what you dislike about the lowercase “m”? It has to be extremely condensed to fit into a fixed-width space, just the same as any other monospaced fon…

Thanks for checking out the font. As the main maker of it, I would love for it to include Cyrillic & Greek characters (and Arabic & Thai & more...), but this font’s variable axes m…

Small type can lose definition on screen just as much as in print, so “inktraps” are really just there to help make things more crisp in text. Of course, they are there just as muc…

A beloved classic. Thanks for trying it out, and thanks for the kind words!

Thanks, it has been a fun project to work on, and you are correct about variable fonts offering more range in fewer bytes! Another thing worth considering in a “page bloat” debate …

The font is under the OFL license, and you can definitely host it on your own server, no connection to Google required.

Ha, yeah, that is a Google Fonts UI bug, and I’ve sent a message to folks over there about it. The font has math symbols that render well. :-) Please check out the font and try the…

Haha, well spotted. Yeah, it seems to maybe be an issue of how Google Fonts sends preview text to the URL, and the “+” conflicts with the general separator. I’ve sent a message to …

Can I ask what software you ran into that issue with? Probably, it was a strict-monospace environment, like vim in a terminal. I have created code-specific fonts to deal with this …

There is a stylistic set which allows you to get an unambiguous 1 vs l (ss05). See: https://github.com/arrowtype/recursive#opentype-features Also, there are fonts made specifically…

Yeah, we tried to pack maybe a few too many fun features into the minisite, so it is unfortunately a bit more laggy than ideal. Thanks for checking it out, though!

Strange, usually if a font is rendered with that issue, it would be in several other letters, as well. That is often from the font renderer using an “even-odd rule” in vector rende…

Nope, you are not the only one! That is an issue of the font renderer using an “even-odd rule” in vector rendering. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Even%E2%80%93odd_rule What is your…

Thank you for saying more, chrisdalke! I actually tried to post the font’s website, but because it was already posted last year, hacker news wouldn’t allow me to submit the link ag…

You can also learn more about Recursive & configure advanced Google Fonts API calls on the Recursive minisite: https://www.recursive.design/