“neutral” location within an OpenType variable font) Minimum, default and maximum location coordinates (the default coordinate is the recommended value for that axis in a “regular” font and is used to determine the default i.e.FontLab’s internal two-letter axis code.You can edit any of the standard axes added by the application, if you wished to create a different one. If you keep adding more axes, FontLab will add the following axes (if they are missing from the list) - width, optical size, slant, italic, contrast, serif, grade, x-height, scale and tracking- in this order, before adding a completely empty axis. If you have no axes in the list (or are missing the weight axis), the standard weight axis will appear.

Open the Font Info dialog File > Font Info.Ĭlick on the + button. If your variable font only uses the weight and width axes, you don’t need to explicitly add them to your font, but doing so gives you more control over defining axis properties. Axes can represent weight, width, optical size, slant and italic-ness (which all have registered axes tags in the specification), or other typographic properties like contrast, serif size, ascender or descender height, based on your design. In FontLab, you can add up to 65,536 axes (64K), as allowed by the OpenType specification. Finally, the Font Info dialog is where you can add, delete and manage the axes, masters and predefined instances of your variable fonts. If you’re working in a variable font, Layers and Masters panel shows a list of all your masters and the virtual instances. You can use the Preview panel alongside to see how your glyphs look when you move the virtual instance you have created. Here you can also create a virtual instance. In the Variations panel, you can see all your axes, as well a visual/spatial representation of the design space, including the position of masters. In FontLab, Variations panel is the primary place for controlling Variable fonts. Previewing Instances and Interpolation Results.Adding recipes for predefined instances.Making a Font From Color Vector Graphics.Detecting Element References or Composites.

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