GradesExamples…
Grade circle
Text can be styled in an part of a variable font’s design space. Here the lightest and widest Roboto Delta experiment is having grades applied to create an area of text with a different weight, without change to the layout.
A TRADITION IN GRAPHIC DESIGN FOREVER. BUT
COMPOSING IT WAS A LOT OF TROUBLE IN SOME
CASES WHERE THE DESIRE WAS FOR THE
APPEARANCE OF TEXT TO CHANGE, BUT
CHANGING THE APPEARANCE ALSO CHANGES
THE LAYOUT OF THE TEXT. SEVERAL FONT
STYLES MADE ON THE SAME WIDTH CAN HELP,
BUT THE ULTIMATE SOLUTION IS TO HAVE A
FLUID RANGE OF STYLES THAT ALLOW THE
SEPARATION OF THE TEXTURAL AND GRAPHICAL
NATURES OF LETTERS — IF IT COULD ONLY EXIST.