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Dev tools · July 16, 2018

Font Playground

A fun place to play with variable fonts!

Font Playground launched on July 16, 2018 with 14 votes, #851 of 2,673 launches that month and more than 50% of that year's launches. The site was still online in September 2026, 8 years on.

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What it does

Font Playground is a playground to fully explore what these new font technologies can offer and how they can be beneficial to your creative workflow.

fonts, typeface, typography, variable font, Adobe VF Prototype, Amstelvar, Avenir Next, Bahnschrift, Barlow, Buffalo Gals, Cheee, Compressa, dT Jakob, Decovar, Dunbar, Extraordinaire, Extraordinaire Shade, Fit, Gimlet Beta, Gimlet Italic Beta, Gingham, Gnomon*, Input Mono Beta, Jabin, Kairos Sans, Lab, League Mono, Libre Franklin, Libre Franklin Italic, Louvette Beta, Louvette Italic Beta, Markazi

The first group of audience is typographers and designers, who would like to play with fonts that are built with the latest font technologies, such as variable font. It is a playground to fully explore what these new font technologies can offer and how they can be beneficial to your creative workflow. The second group of audience is me, as a Type Tool’s UI/UX designer. This is a playground for me to test UI experiments for variable fonts and other new upcoming font technologies. One of the key points to the success of new font technology is adoption by design tools, and furthermore, designers. How can design tool present variable fonts in a way that is useful but not too complicated to…from play.typedetail.com

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