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Web · 2025
Sonder Type
A specimen site where every typeface can be bent, stretched and tested live.
- Client
- Sonder Type Foundry
- Role
- Design & development
- Timeline
- 12 weeks
- Year
- 2025
- Web design
- Creative development
- Variable font tooling
The brief
Sonder's typefaces are variable to the bone, yet their specimens were flat PDFs. They needed a site that let designers feel every axis before buying a licence.
The approach
Each family gets a live playground: drag across the page to move weight and width, type your own words, and export a test sheet. Under the hood, a small rendering engine keeps forty fonts responsive on a mid-range phone.
The result
The specimen became the sales pitch. Trials turn into licences far more often, and the playground gets passed around design communities every week.
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