Fluxetype is a typeface that exists at the intersection of humanist sans and serifless roman. The first Fluxetype letters were cut out of paper, taken into separate pieces, and then reassembled. Moving and shifting pieces, Nikita Kanarev explored the mechanics of variability transferred from the digital world to the analogue one. The graphic concept of the typeface was born as a result of this practice.
In Fluxetype, form and counterform interlock according to the logic of a so-called dovetail joint used in woodworking. The two parts fit into one another so well that the shape itself keeps the entire structure together — requiring neither glue nor nails.
The font features three variable axes. These bring in a range of weights (from Thin to Black), four optical sizes (Caption, Text, Title, and Display), and three x-height options (Petite — 70% of cap height, Standard — 74%, and Grande — 78%). Ascenders and descenders are reduced in size to ensure that the lowercase characters appear visually larger while line spacing remains comfortable for reading long texts.
Case sensitive forms, standard ligatures, proportional lining figures, proportional oldstyle figures, tabular lining figures, tabular oldstyle figures, ordinals, fractions, denominator, numerator, subscript / inferiors, superscript / superiors, five stylistic sets
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