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# Fraunces Font Project
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Fraunces is a display, "Old Style" soft-serif typeface inspired by the mannerisms of early 20th century typefaces such as [Windsor](http://fontreviewjournal.com/windsor/), Souvenir, and the Cooper Series.
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This typeface family is still under development, and will be ready for initial release by early 2020.
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## Variable Axes
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Fraunces has the following axes:
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Axis | Tag | Range | Default | Description
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--- | --- | --- | --- | ---
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Optical Size | opsz | 9 to 144 | 36 | Labeled 9, 36, 72, and 144 in instances.
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Weight | wght | 100 to 900 | 400 | Labeled Thin, Light, Regular, Semibold, Bold, and Black in instances.
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Goofy* | GOOF* | 000 to 100 | 050 | Labeled G000, G050, and G100 in instances. * Final axis name TBD
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Wonky | WONK | 0 to 1 | 1 | Binary axis controls substitution of "wonky" characters. Automatically substitutes when opsz > 18. Not listed in instances.
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### `opsz` (Optical Size) Axis
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The `opsz` axis ties together changes in contrast, x-height, spacing, and character widths. As `opsz` decreases, the x-height increases, spacing opens up, and the characters expand in width.
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Additionally, mapping of axis values is placed in the AVAR table to create non-linear interpolation in the Variable font.
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Many of the peculiar, wonky characteristics that are suitable for display usage are less desirable for more continuous reading. At certain smaller optical sizes (18px and less), the `wonk` axis is disabled (see below).
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### `wght` (Weight) Axis
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The `wght` axis spans Thin to Black. Nuff said.
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### `GOOF` (Goof) Axis (final axis name TBD)
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The `Goof` axis gives access to the chocolate-y, Goofy forms that are available towards the Optical Min, but still retaining other Optical Sizing considerations, such as change in character width, spacing, tall ascenders, and shorter x-height
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### `WONK` (Wonky) Axis
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A binary axis that subsitutes `wonk` characters for more normalized characters, such as the leaning n/m/h in Roman, or the bulbous flags in the b/d/h/k/l of the Italic. In traditional instances of fonts, this will be implemented as a Stylistic Set.
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