Country Life
Typography
Typography
Typography
Typography
Typography
Typography
Typography
Typography
Typography
Designer(s)
Elyssa Biringer
Duration
0 Weeks
Recognitions
What is a variable typeface?
A variable font is an OpenType font format which contains a font’s entire glyph set, or individual glyphs with up to 64,000 axes of variation, including weight, width, slant, etc. It is useful, especially in digital applications to reduce loading times, and have more flexibility with type hierarchy.
Why Country Life?
Country Life is a variable typeface made for cooking blogs. The serif was made to have rounded, and soft edges in order to evoke a cozy feeling. The typeface is made with numerous number styles, accents, and special characters in order to suit any cooking website needs. Since many cooking blogs have long loading times due to the amount of photos, and ads present, I though creating typeface for these websited might prove useful.
When creating the typeface, I had wanted to create a typeface which would remind the reader of cooking in the kitchen with children—messy, fun, and homey. To achieve this, I wanted my characters to not have a perfectly vertical axis since it would have made the variable font seem too clean and professional when the intended look is more casual.
