Google Fonts has commissioned a new variable font project, a serif dubbed "Amstelvar," from Font Bureau.
Led by the experience and insight of the Font Bureau co-founder David Berlow, who worked extensively on the Variable Fonts format back when it was initially developed at Apple in the early 90s, the fb team are pushing the envelope of this cutting edge technology. They posted a blog post introducing the serif project - https://www.typenetwork.com/brochure/opentype-variable-fonts-moving-right-along - that includes an SVG animation of the novel variation axes involved.
Led by the experience and insight of the Font Bureau co-founder David Berlow, who worked extensively on the Variable Fonts format back when it was initially developed at Apple in the early 90s, the fb team are pushing the envelope of this cutting edge technology. They posted a blog post introducing the serif project - https://www.typenetwork.com/brochure/opentype-variable-fonts-moving-right-along - that includes an SVG animation of the novel variation axes involved.
And as a libre font, its all on Github to take a full look inside: https://github.com/TypeNetwork/fb-Amstelvar
Also, I'm super happy to see Type Network folks are doing lots of other interesting Variable Fonts projects, such as https://djr.com/fit/variable.html - and, not sure if it was mentioned on TD yet, but there is a great twitter account by Nick Sherman where all VF news is posted, https://twitter.com/variablefonts
