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Decovar – A multistyle decorative variable font

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Re: Decovar – A multistyle decorative variable font

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Post by dsr_ »

That's pretty cool, but in order to use it on my desktop, do I need an all-new font widget that can control every aspect of the specification? Or do I fiddle on a webapp until I get the one that I want, download it and use it as normal... and now I have a thousand variants of Decovar that I have to squint at very carefully to differentiate?

I'm not complaining about choice, I just want to know if anybody has thought about usability.

Re: Decovar – A multistyle decorative variable font

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Post by akita-ken »

dsr_ wrote: post #2

That's pretty cool, but in order to use it on my desktop, do I need an all-new font widget that can control every aspect of the specification? Or do I fiddle on a webapp until I get the one that I want, download it and use it as normal... and now I have a thousand variants of Decovar that I have to squint at very carefully to differentiate? I'm not complaining about choice, I just want to know if anybody has thought…

If you clone the repo (or download the .UFO files from the sources folder), you can find all the variations with different skeletons and terminals that you can play around with in an editor like RoboFont.

Re: Decovar – A multistyle decorative variable font

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Post by thechao »

falsedan wrote: post #3

Sounds an awful lot like METAFONT.

The thing I absolutely miss the most from grad school is porting my advisor's whiteboard chicken scratch into parametric METAPOST graphics. It let us size & scope images to their target: posters, conference papers, slides, journal publications, etc.

Re: Decovar – A multistyle decorative variable font

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Post by dEnigma »

and0 wrote: post #7

This is really cool. Did anyone else try to drag the "Drag Me!" bubble for 10 seconds, though? Instead of the line itself, I mean.

Yup, it's like a door that says "PUSH" or a button that says "Click me!", I automatically -and I think understandably- assumed I should drag the thing it's written on, not the thing next to it

Re: Decovar – A multistyle decorative variable font

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Post by davelab6 »

dsr_ wrote: post #2

That's pretty cool, but in order to use it on my desktop, do I need an all-new font widget that can control every aspect of the specification? Or do I fiddle on a webapp until I get the one that I want, download it and use it as normal... and now I have a thousand variants of Decovar that I have to squint at very carefully to differentiate? I'm not complaining about choice, I just want to know if anybody has thought…

Yes, all applications now need an all-new font widget. The first program with such a widget is https://github.com/googlei18n/fontview
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