Make your variable fonts better with FontLab 7

In this presentation delivered at ATypI Tech Talks 2021, Adam Twardoch demonstrates how to use FontLab 7 and several other applications to check variable font projects. All popular font editors now have some mechanisms for designing variable fonts and exporting them as variable OpenType fonts and static instances. Type developers may use FontLab or any other font editor for their variable designs—in any case, it’s useful to test and check how a font performs in several apps. The more axes, masters, and glyphs a project has, the more care needed to go into testing and proofing. Buy or try #FontLab at FontLab 7 is a pro font editor for Mac and Windows. Create, open, modify, draw, space, kern, hint and export desktop, web, color and variable OpenType fonts for any Unicode writing system, from Latin, Cyrillic and Greek, to Arabic, Hebrew and Indic, all the way to Chinese, Japanese, emoji, symbols and icons. FontLab offers a modern platform not just for established type designers and font dev