Tuesday, March 10, 2015

Featured Site: Metaflop


Metaflop by Swiss designers Marco Müller and Alexis Reigel

Metaflop is an easy-to-use web app that lets users design their own fonts without the expense of typography software or the hassle of dealing with the technical aspects of design, like programming language and coding.

Metaflop makes designing your own fonts as simple as adjusting a the app’s sliders to adjust a typeface's characteristics, such as cap height and ascenders, in real time.   Once you're satisfied with your font design, you can easily download it as a .otf font for free.  It's also a great way for new graphic designers to learn the terminology surrounding type design.  If you've ever read about typeface terms like ascenders, cap heights, overshoot, descenders, and contrasts, there's no better way to figure out what these terms mean than by using a slider to change their variables and see how it changes a typeface in real time.

In an interview with It’s Nice That, designers Marco Müller and Alexis Reigel said: "We are aware that it is difficult to produce subtle and refined typographical fonts (in the classical meaning)… Nevertheless we believe there is a undeniable quality in parametric font design and we try to bring it closer to the world of the designers."


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