Designspace

We recommend spending some time with setting up your designspace properly (but it’s not a problem to modify the designspace after the design started as well). Questions you may ask yourself before you start with a new typeface:

Example:

Let’s imagine we want to create a typeface with the following axes:

Minimum of font sources required:

(But keep in mind that you may need also intermediate sources to tweak the design somewhere in between.)

Number of font instances planned:

Once you have sketched out your designspace, you’re ready to create your font axes.