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by j-pb
3408 days ago
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Font is about readability. You can use it to convey emotion and style as well but readability must come first. It takes carefull tuning to achieve that in a stylistic font and I doubt it is possible at all in a font like this.
The kerning in this thing is just painful.
Additionally the rendering engine has to be even more complex then that stuff already is. This entire thing is an anti feature, it looks worse and is less readable, makes the implementation of stuff harder, and nobody needs it, but hey some people can feel smug. |
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Not so. Typefaces are (as with most two dimensional design) about communication. Legibility is merely the most straightforward means by which a typeface enables communication (of the text), but there are many other things that can be communicated (emotions, age, time, place, personality, intellect, attitude, sanity, ideology, and on and on).
Sure this typeface has some pretty extreme variations, and the interface certainly encourages the use of the entire gamut, but nothing says that you can't be subtle. Remember when drop-shadows were new and everything looked like it was levitating at least a half-inch off the background? Ignoring for the moment the "flat design" interregnum, we've used dropshadows ever since, but over time in a much more restrained way.
Anyway, this particular typeface is clearly meant as an eye-catching demo of the technology, and even a lighter touch still leaves you with an all-caps display font. Less overt and garish variations (along the lines of the older Multiple Master fonts) are possible and are clearly in the works: https://www.typenetwork.com/brochure/opentype-variable-fonts...