![]() ![]() Grilli Type’s fonts and their accompanying mini sites have pushed the traditional boundaries of type design to enticing new heights. Variable fonts are also an exciting way to bring more dynamic expression to the web, a subject that Thierry Blancpain, co-founder of Grilli Type, an independent font foundry based in Lucerne and New York City, is passionate about. Want to play with the slant of a font? Have at it. Need to balance the optical size and weight of a font simultaneously? Go ahead. That’s why we launched support for variable fonts, single font files that can be manipulated to achieve a variety of expressions by giving designers the ability to adjust type along a series of axes. In short, making sure a font shows up in the best way can require a lot of finessing. ![]() ![]() Plus, managing different weights and styles requires multiple files, which can be tricky from a development perspective-more font styles means more code and assets to download, resulting in additional work, potential room for error, and slower loading times. Balancing size and legibility often requires minute, exacting adjustments to the kerning (the spacing between individual letters) and tracking (the spacing between groups of letters), so that typography looks consistent and readable. Lines of copy that you might easily read in a given form factor will start to deform and become illegible in another. Type can suffer from scaling problems: When you increase the size of a font, say, from a business card to a billboard (or even from a mobile device to a desktop), you’re also changing the spatial perception between each letter. ![]()
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