An experimental Variable Font consisting of 27 separate drawings for each letter, with 3 interpolation axes: Width, Weight, and Time.

The relatively new Variable Font technology allows for smooth transitions between extreme and intermediate points drawn by the type designer – allowing for precise adjustment of letter widths, or for setting the letter thickness beyond the usual Light, Normal, Bold weights.

A starting point for the project was research into the life & work of Jozef Peeters, a relatively unknown graphic artist that lived in Antwerp, Belgium at the beginning of XXth century. Looking from a contemporary perspective at his linocut works, full of expressive and constantly transforming letterforms, a lot of comparisons can be drawn between possibilities that a Variable Font gives.

Bringing them into the current day, Peeters’ letterforms serve as a middle point of the Time slider. Going towards one of the extreme points of the axis, they jump 50 years to the sci-fi shapes of the 1970s. Traveling to the opposite end of the axis, the letters arrive at the 2020s and transform into a contemporary sans-serif.