DECOVAR

A variable decorative sans by David Berlow.

The documentation contains a description of the project and typographic contents of the repo.

The fonts folder contains the DecovarAlpha-VF.ttf file, the variable font.

The sources folder contains the fonts with axis data in their names, used to create the Variations Font.

Axes

Each of Decovar’s axes has a default value of 0 and a maximum value of 1000, and are defined in the designspace file. Currently, Decovar’s axes (and their four letter tags) are as follows:

• BLDA: Inline
• BLDB: Worm
• WMX2: Weight
• SKLA: Inline Skeleton
• SKLB: Worm Skeleton
• SKLD: Stripes
• TRMA: Rounded
• TRMB: Flared
• TRMC: Rounded Slab
• TRMD: Sheared
• TRME: Bifurcated
• TRMF: Open Inline Terminal
• TRMG: Slab
• TRMK: Inline Terminal
• TRML: Worm Terminal

You can implement them in CSS like this:

font-variation-settings: "SKLA" 1000, "TRMG" 750;

Generating

The Decovar variable font was created with RoboFont and is generated using fontmake. A build script build.sh is included that will build the variable font using fontmake, copy it to the /fonts folder, and offer a subsetted version.

$ cd sources/2-build
$ bash build.sh