Category Archives: Variable Fonts

Visualizing with LLMs: challenging data visualizations

Posted on March 9, 2026 by richardbrath

LLM’s help me animate the text in ways that it perhaps should not be animated. Why? It’s about understanding breadth of design possibilities. Continue reading →

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Vis 2022 and sparklines as bullets

Posted on November 27, 2022 by richardbrath

In my previous post, I noted Marti Hearst’s keynote discussion on the disruption that sparklines cause in reading running text by inserting very different graphic elements within the flow. And, I also noted Kerry Magruder’s capstone which showed Galileo’s notebooks … Continue reading →

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New InfoTypography research validates and quantifies text variables in visualization

Posted on August 6, 2022 by richardbrath

A decade ago, I had a hypothesis that text could be integrated within visualization, such as the use of typographic variables to encode data. That is, boldness, oblique angle, underlines, or even x-height might be useful to convey additional data … Continue reading →

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Visualizing with Text – Interactive Demos

Posted on September 23, 2020 by richardbrath

Visualizing with Text now has interactive demos made with observable notebooks. One demo for word skimming is discussed including some code edits to make colorful text. Continue reading →

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Variable Fonts vs. Parametric Fonts and Data Visualization

Posted on August 26, 2017 by richardbrath

I’ve typically been using ready-made fonts to create font-based visualizations in this blog. However, sticking to ready-made fonts means that you get only one slope angle for italic, a few levels of weight, maybe a condensed version or maybe not. … Continue reading →

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