Variable Height hght

Glyphs
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I was looking at a design agency’s website and noticed their animated logo on the bottom of the page. Interested to see how it was done i can see that this uses a variable font where the axis is hght. I can’t see an option for height in glyphs and not sure if you can change the height of a glyph? Or are they simply using hght as the axis name and scaling the letter (possibly a single ligature) beyond the ascender?

It’s a very cool use of a variable font and I’d like to try it myself.

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You can add a “Height” axis in Font Info > Font. Then it works just like the Weight or Width axis.

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Would the glyph then extend beyond the ascender?

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They have it that the ascender it at the max height. So the “normal” drawing is very small.

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Thanks @GeorgSeifert
I’m going to have a play with height as a variable and see what I can make.