![]() At the time of this writing, in late 2020, it’s still not clear what this will mean for the type industry. The protocol, however, disadvantages small, independent foundries because all fonts must be offered through apps in the App Store. In 2019, Apple officially announced font installation on iOS, which was great news for users who increasingly design on mobile devices, especially iPads. Also, to see the possibilities of variability in a range of different scripts, see the Variable Type Show, curated by Eunyou Noh 노은유x and Minjoo Ham 함민주. We’re now tagging variable fonts and, among the external links on relevant reviews, we point to, where you can quickly sample variable fonts and adjust each axis. By contrast, at the same age, variable fonts were already at work in the real world. At age three, OpenType fonts and webfonts were still infants, barely learning to crawl. This rate of adoption may seem slow, but new type technologies often require many years to gain traction. Ten of the releases selected for this year’s list include a variable option, and, unlike previous years in which they were limited to foundry specimens and the occasional experimental project, variable fonts began to see practical use in 2019. The variable font format was formally introduced in 2016, and it quickly showed benefits for web design, but 2019 was probably the first year it could be considered commercially viable. Along with the usual throng of type designers, graphic designers, and design educators - each selecting a typeface that most excited them in 2019 - there are writers whose expertise extends to independent publishing, multiscript typography, social justice, and even governmental policy. For this year’s annual, more than a dozen contributors make their Typographica debut. The type world now touches and overlaps circles it previously didn’t, with people from a wide variety of backgrounds showing new interest and literacy in the making of fonts and letters. Every year there are more type design schools, more type design companies, and more type designers - but 2019’s expansion appears to be exponential and extends beyond a familiar core. ![]() The type community has never seemed larger. ![]() Reviewed by Typographica on December 22, 2020 Prev Feature → Our Favorite Typefaces of 2019 ![]()
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