What are variable fonts?
🔗 Interactive example: choose your writing system (Latin/Arabic) and play with the sliders on the left.
🔗 Formal explanation (text + images)
Lexend is a typeface with variable weight axis (Thin to Black) and variable width axis. It is designed to improve reading fluency.
Read more: 🔗 Official website - Lexend.com ; 🔗 GitHub/GoogleFonts page ; 🔗 Google Fonts
Readex Pro is the world-script expansion of Lexend. It's the same as Lexend, with the addition of more scripts (at this moment: Arabic)
Read more: - 🔗 Official website - Lexend.com ; 🔗 GitHub/Author page ; 🔗 Google Fonts
| FONT NAME | WEIGHT-AXIS | WEIGHT-NAMES |
|---|---|---|
| Lexend | 100 → 900 | Thin 100; ExtraLight 200; Light 300; Regular 400 (default); Medium 500; Semibold 600; Bold 700; Extrabold 800; Black 900 |
| ReadexPro | 160 → 700 | Extralight 200; Light 300; Regular 400 (default); Medium 500; Semibold 600; Bold 700 |
As for the width axis, Lexend uses the following naming convention:
Deca • HEXP 0
Exa • HEXP 40
Giga • HEXP 56
Mega • HEXP 64
Peta • HEXP 72
Tera • HEXP 80
Zetta • HEXP 100
Dff fonts are based on the "deca" version, the one with the least amount of hyper-expansion.
| Lexend and ReadexPro are both unconventional sans-serif typefaces as they make an exception for the uppercase 'i', giving it a serif. |  |
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DffLentic is a fork of Lexend. DffReef is a fork of ReadexPro.
Both forks are based on the originals, but 3* glyphs from the alternative set have been locked in as default.
(*) only 2 in Readex
The three modifications:
* Dotted 0* Alt a* Alt g |
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Showcase & Comparison:
No requirements needed.
Download your font here, open the file and and follow the installation wizard.
Note: It's provided a single file that installs all the different instances of the weight axis. Each instance is based on "deca" width axis.
- Download DffLentic 📥 Download (recommended)
- Download DffReef 📥 Download (if your script has been added to Readex)
Scripts added to ReadexPro (and DffReef consequently):
Latin
Arabic
If you prefer, you can always install the original fonts:
| Lexend | Multiple files, each installs a single instance of the weight axis: 📥 Download |
| Lexend | Single file that installs that installs all the different instances of the weight axis: 📥 Download |
| ReadexPro | Single file that installs all the different instances of the weight axis: 📥 Download |
🎉 Enjoy!
This project is a simple modification of the original work done through editing precompiled fonts. Original source files are untouched. Editing source files is outside the scope of this project.
Requirements: Tools used for the manual process are still required.
📥 py-fontLineEditor
📥 py-compare2Lexend
Tools used:
✅ The Open Font License is a free software license, and as such permits the fonts to be used, modified, and distributed freely (so long as the resulting fonts remain under the Open Font License).
✅ Fonts can be used for both personal or commercial use.
More info on https://openfontlicense.org/ofl-faq/
This project exists to improve compatibility and ease of use for software that doesn't support easily switching to alternative glyphs. DffLentic & DffReef are completely based on Lexend and Readex Pro but are in no way related to them. DffLentic & DffReef have different names as per OFL Guidelines but I have done my best to maintain the references to the original products.