Typeface Design for Print and Web
2,690 glyphs per style to animate width across a single line of text
Francis Gradient is a capital-only display sans serif designed by Nikola Djurek at Typotheque, released in 2016, with contributions from Karsten Luecke. The family draws on early 20th-century European advertising lettering and rational geometry. Its defining feature is four gradient styles that dynamically expand or contract character widths across a word or line using OpenType Contextual Alternates, enabled by 2,690 glyphs per style.
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- Each of the four gradient styles contains 2,690 glyphs selected automatically via OpenType's Contextual Alternates feature to produce progressive width changes.
- The gradient effect can be applied at the word level or across full lines of text, giving designers control over the scale of the transition.
- The gradient styles are capital-only display versions of the Francis family.
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