Type Physics is a web editor that lets you animate variable typefaces and couple the animation with sound design. Using Type Physics, you can, for instance, make individual glyphs, words, and paragraphs jump, rotate, or fall apart by gravity — or the force of chaos! — and link all this to the movement of a slider along a variable axis.

In Type Physics, the sound does not exist as a separate layer but as part of the system. Visual effects affect what sound design will be like — for example, collisions of characters or movement along the variable axis are reflected in the audio track.

Type Physics offers two interaction scenarios. The first, Physics +, is the right fit for experimenting at the intersection of physics and typography. The second one, Variable +, is suitable for finely tuned animation of variable fonts — which might be useful, say, to type designers setting up visuals for their font releases.

You can make animations using any variable font from the type.today collection, or upload a typeface from your computer. The final image can be exported as a PNG or SVG file, and the animation can be recorded as a video right within the tool.

Type Physics is free for personal and non-commercial use. You can post a project created with the tool on your personal social media — but it cannot be used in advertising or shared with customers. If you want to use Type Physics in a commercial project, you will need a license for the font you are using. A video license for a typeface from the type.today library can be purchased in our store. If you are dealing with fonts from other marketplaces, make sure their license allows this type of usage.

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Open Type Physics
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We would appreciate it if, when publishing work created with Type Physics, you add a link to our store and indicate the tool’s creators — the BUROU3 studio (which is designer Timur Zima and sound artist Geo Kotanov) —as well as mention the name of the typeface you used.