Variable Fonts Workshop
Student Work Showcase

Variable font testing tool and student work showcase

Overview

The Variable Fonts Workshop was a 4-week course taught at Rhode Island School of Design from 2023–2024. No Replica founder Gabriel Drozdov created and taught the course, during which students designed original variable fonts and remixed versions of open-source fonts. In addition to the course, we developed a website that enabled students to test their fonts. The site also functions as an ongoing showcase of student work from the course.

For the site, No Replica drew inspiration from hardware for creating music. Students can use an oscillator to see their fonts in motion, with six distinct waveform presets that control the direction and easing of the resulting animation.

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Services
Website design
Website development
Type design
Educational resource development
Custom tool development
Year
2024
The site’s splash screen features an original variable font.
The site centers on a type testing interface reminiscent of musical synthesizers. This testing tool lets users type in text and adjust variable font axes using a variety of settings, such as animation direction or speed.
The site includes numerous student fonts, which users can browse using the top navigation bar.
Users can select from a catalog of over 100 variable fonts designed by students.
The tester supports any number of variable axes. Additional controls appear for fonts with multiple axes.
Users have several options for generating sample text.

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