For iconstructa8 cuts · v1.000
Orrery
A variable sans on one skeleton: weight, width and Mode. Mode opens a lens-shaped slot in every stroke and then an echoing second line.
- Cuts
- 86 sub-families
- Glyphs
- 365350 characters
- Features
- 3ss01 tnum kern
- Axes
- 3wght wdth MODE
01Styles
8 cuts · choose one to set it in the samplerOrrery Variable
Orrery
Orrery Lens
Orrery Echo
Orrery Condensed
Orrery Extended
02Font sampler
type into itOrrery Variable
Orrery
Orrery Lens
Orrery Echo
Orrery Condensed
Orrery Extended
Alignment
OpenType
Weight, width and mode
TryOrrery Variable
OpenType features in this family
- ss01Stylistic set 14 substitutions0 1 I l0 1 I l
- tnumTabular figures10 substitutions1111 00001111 0000
Left: feature off. Right: on. Substitutions read from the font's GSUB table.
03Glyphs
350 characters in 10 Unicode blocks04Information
read from the font files- Designer
- iconstructa
- Made for
- iconstructa ↗
- Version
- 1.000
- Styles
- 8 · Orrery Variable 1 · Orrery 3 · Orrery Lens 1 · Orrery Echo 1 · Orrery Condensed 1 · Orrery Extended 1
- Glyphs per style
- 365
- Characters
- 350 mapped to Unicode
- Features
- ss01 · tnum · kern
- Variable axes
- Weight (wght) 200–700 · Width (wdth) 75–140 · Mode (MODE) 0–100. One variable font plus 7 static instances.
- Metrics
- 1000 upm · cap 700 · x 500 · asc 950 · desc -270
- Source files
- TTF
- Language support
- English, French, German, Spanish, Portuguese, Italian, Dutch, Swedish, Danish / Norwegian, Finnish, Icelandic, Polish, Czech, Turkish
- On this site
- Showcase only. 1.3 MB of WOFF2 for the preview; nothing to download or license here.
A variable sans on one skeleton: weight, width and Mode. Mode opens a lens-shaped slot in every stroke and then an echoing second line.
- 36 static instances ship (Light, Regular, Medium, Bold by Condensed, Normal, Extended by Solid, Lens, Echo); this page lists seven of them next to the variable font. The variable font has wght 200-700, wdth 75-140, MODE 0-100.
- Features: kern, tnum, ss01 (slashed zero, footed one, serifed I, tailed l).
- Latin only: Basic Latin, Latin-1, Latin Extended-A (all but four letters), punctuation, currency, math basics, arrows.
- Unhinted prototype; not offered for redistribution.
From Origin: orrery/README.md, orrery/DESIGN-BRIEF.md
Known limitations
- Details of small symbols collapse at the heavy end of Mode (asterisk, guillemets, tilde, braces at wght 700 Echo): the ranges were limited (wght 700, wdth 75) so the letters stay clean, but small marks are crowded there.
- Interpolation: a 5x5x5 grid (wght 200/300/400/550/700 x wdth 75/88/100/120/140 x MODE 0/25/50/75/100) against the parametric model shows the worst glyph per location averaging 1.4 font units of mean boundary displacement; 27 of 353 glyphs exceed 3 units somewhere in the grid, worst braceright (about 15 units at wght 550, wdth 88, MODE 100) then s (4.8). Interpolated advances differ from the model by up to 21 units (13 for most), except U+0149 (up to 106 units); see qa/grid_final.txt.
- Kerning is rule-based (about 445 class pairs): good for the main capital and lower-case pairs and punctuation, not tuned pair by pair; accented letters follow their base letter.
- The ss01 set is small (zero, one, I, l). No oldstyle figures, small caps, fractions feature, ligatures, case feature or mark positioning (accents are drawn into each letter, so there is no mark/mkmk and no combining marks).
- Missing from Latin Extended-A: U+0138, U+014A, U+014B, U+017F. No Greek, Cyrillic or Vietnamese.
- ð (eth), ß, & and @ are first drafts; the ð hook and the ampersand are the weakest drawings.
- fontbakery: the two static samples (Bold, Lens) pass universal and opentype profiles with 0 FAIL; the run on the variable font did not complete (it stalled on one check for over 20 minutes), its first partial run failed on mac names, STAT name length and the missing prep program, all fixed afterwards. OTS passes all 75 files.
The designer's own list, copied unchanged from the font's hand-off manifest.
Coverage by Unicode block
- Basic Latin94 / 94
- Latin-1 Supplement94 / 95
- Latin Extended-A124 / 128
- Latin Extended-B5 / 208
- Spacing Modifier Letters8 / 80
- General Punctuation14 / 98
- Currency Symbols1 / 33
- Letterlike Symbols1 / 80
- Arrows4 / 112
- Mathematical Operators5 / 256