Goldberg

An Exploratory Tool for OpenType Variable Fonts

This project was started in an afternoon during a guest lecture on Variable Fonts by Laurence Penney at the TDi 2017 type design summer course at the University of Reading.

It currently consists of a simple macOS app that can read a font’s axes and dynamically creates controls to change them, as well as an editable text view. There is also a (currently basically empty) iOS project in the workspace which will use multi-touch to enable changing of several axes at once.

System Requirements

Due to its use of NSCollectionViewDataSource, the macOS project requires at least macOS 10.11 to compile.

Notes

The name “Goldberg” is a reference to J. S. Bach’s Goldberg Variations (BWV 988). I love both Bach’s music and the occasional pun …