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Typeface Design

Typeface design and the specimens that show it off: variable fonts, display faces and numerals.

Typeface design is the craft of drawing a complete family of letters, and a type specimen is how a foundry shows it off: its weights, its glyphs, its numerals and its personality. Today specimens are often animated, so that variable axes and details can be seen in motion. This page gathers new display and text typefaces, variable fonts and specimen films, by type designers and foundries such as Hawaii Design, Typotheque and Arillatype.Studio.

19 works by 15 creators, newest added 10 November 2026. Each is credited to the people who made it and links to the original.

All 19 Typeface Design

  1. Yazio Letterforms by Koto — Letterforms from the rebrand of Yazio, Europe's leading nutrition app, where the outline of Yettie, its horned but lovable beast, folds into a g, so the bold type borrows its horns.
  2. Base Sans by Mouthwash Studio — Base Sans, the custom typeface of the new Base brand, shown through its @ sign squaring off and rounding again in a wave, from a launch film inspired by Powers of Ten.
  3. Ampersands, Handles and Weights by Kostya Farber — A variable font study of an ampersand that keeps its points and Bézier handles in view as the weight runs from 200 to 800, showing how one outline drives every weight.
  4. Geist Serif by Nicolás Garro — The launch film of Geist Serif, Vercel’s open-source, high-contrast display serif with saw-toothed serifs and a dot axis of rounds, squares, triangles and hearts, built on a blueprint.
  5. Aeonik Super Magnetic by Hawaii Design — A kinetic typography specimen for the Aeonik Superfamily of CoType Foundry, where VHS tape echo becomes a type effect: each jump of the word Super leaves a trail of coloured copies.
  6. Aeonik T-120 by Hawaii Design — A VHS-inspired type specimen for the Aeonik Superfamily of CoType Foundry, where tape markings make a motion poster and T-120 breaks into chunky pixels before rebuilding as smooth type.
  7. Aeonik PLAY Cassette by Hawaii Design — A looping kinetic typography specimen for the Aeonik Superfamily of CoType Foundry, set on a VHS cassette label where the four letters of PLAY tumble and swap places between turning reels.
  8. Chill Sans by Chill Type — A kinetic type specimen for Chill Sans, a geo-humanist grotesk that runs from bold softness to light airiness, its glyphs swapping inside selection frames as in a design tool.
  9. TWK Burns Outlines by Nolan Paparelli — A type specimen film for TWK Burns, a geometric sans for Weltkern now in 10 weights from Hairline to Ultra with Italics, its Bézier outlines swelling until the strokes overlap.
  10. TWK Burns Weights by Nolan Paparelli — A type specimen animation for TWK Burns, a geometric sans serif for Weltkern after Century Gothic and ITC Avant Garde, whose 10 weights run from Hairline to strokes that overlap.
  11. SwimClub Numerals by Center — Custom numerals for SwimClub, a male fertility supplement, built from tiles that recall both DNA bases and the lanes of an Olympic pool, set in motion as an animated type specimen.
  12. Zed Icons by Typotheque — An icon set drawn as part of the Zed typeface and built on the same system as its letters, so pictograms of runners, prams and hands can swap in for characters within a word.
  13. Magmae Typeface by Arillatype.Studio — A type specimen film for Magmæ, an industrial sans serif in 18 styles from Air to Super, where flowing lava turns every letter it touches bolder, showing the weights as heat.
  14. Supreme Variable Type by Brandon Fretwell — A variable font study in 3D type, built between After Effects and Cinema 4D, where the Supreme logotype set in Extenda stretches and squeezes through layers of glossy red plastic.
  15. Blubird Typeface by Rajesh Rajput — A condensed sans serif typeface whose narrow capitals are made for fashion posters and editorial headlines, with nine weights, 36 styles and Display and Text optical sizes.
  16. Pier Rides 10p by Peregrin Studio — A type specimen in motion for Ashcroft, a flared serif after early twentieth-century British lettering, where magpies perch on the words Pier Rides 10p against a seaside sunset.
  17. Chelsea Royal Garden by Peregrin Studio — An animated type specimen for a light weight of Ashcroft, a flared serif rooted in carved and painted British lettering, with petals and a bird drifting through Chelsea Royal Garden 1913.
  18. Stardust Space by Alex Turner — Kinetic typography in After Effects and Cavalry that tests the range of Stardust, a variable Newglyph typeface by Ian Party, as one word swells from condensed to wide and back.
  19. Framer Custom Fonts by Benjamin den Boer — A UI animation for Framer’s redesigned custom fonts, with typeface grouping, live previews and better variable font support, where a liquid glass lens magnifies each font as it passes.

Featuring work by

Hawaii Design, Nolan Paparelli, Peregrin Studio, Koto, Mouthwash Studio, Kostya Farber, Nicolás Garro, Chill Type, Center, Typotheque, Arillatype.Studio, Brandon Fretwell, Rajesh Rajput, Alex Turner, Benjamin den Boer.

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