Behind the font

Notes from the studio: new typefaces, how they are drawn, and how to use and license them.

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Merry Christmas set in Last Christmas Variable at five positions of the alternates slider, from plain to fully decorated Behind the font One slider for weight, one for swashes: inside Last Christmas Variable Most variable fonts let you slide from thin to bold. Last Christmas Variable has a second slider that brings in the swashes, from none at all to every one. Four Last Christmas capitals with the base letter in black and each swash part in its own color Behind the font Built from parts: how Last Christmas is put together Hundreds of letters in Last Christmas were never drawn as whole letters. They are assembled from 40 plain letters and 38 swash parts, like a construction kit. Last Christmas Swash in gold on a deep red background, with the words Version 2.0 New release Last Christmas 2.0: new swashes, three weights and a variable font Version 2.0 of Last Christmas adds swash alternates for every letter, Light, Regular and Bold, and a variable version. What is new and how to use it.