![]() Why’s it called Fit Hebrew? Shocker: Because it is the Hebrew companion of the Latin Fit. Looking at the two typefaces side by side, the answer is clearly YES. “For me, the essence of the project was: Can David’s achievement (that is, the maximum coverage of the text area) be translated to the Hebrew script, which has principles that are so substantially different from the Latin alphabet?” ![]() “The work progressed through dialogue on Skype calls I think the process itself was the heart of the matter, just as important as the font that came out of it,” says Ezer. Variable fonts make web design truly responsive, allowing for subtle typographic adaptations on the fly and helping type to look its best no matter what limitations of size or width are imposed upon it. Variable fonts became reality in 2016 when the OpenType Font Variations jointly developed by Google, Adobe, Microsoft, and Apple made it possible for type designers to interpolate a font’s entire glyph set or individual glyphs along up to 64,000 axes of variation (weight or width) and define specific positions in the design space as named instances (bold or condensed). The designers learned that using variable font technology creatively was quite a conceptual and technical challenge. A variable font is a single font file that behaves like multiple fonts, with an infinite variety of potential weights, widths, and other attributes. I thought Fit Hebrew could be a great expression of my experimental side.” As part of my experimental ‘ Memory Palace’ (acquired by MoMA for its permanent collection in 2013), I mouthed, ate, burned, and broke letterforms to investigate new methods of reading time-based paragraphs. ![]() Ezer says, “In recent years, I’ve been investigating the possibilities that motion can bring to typeface design. The letterforms maintain their distinct identities, even as they morph from super-wide bloated characters to stick-thin ones, depending on how much room is available for them to spread out or squeeze into. Fit Hebrew is the first commercial variable font for the Hebrew language.ĭesigners: Oded Ezer and David Jonathan Rossīack Story: Oded Ezer and David Jonathan Ross created Fit Hebrew as an expansion of Ross’s Fit typeface, a display font that fits just about any text into just about any space. ![]()
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