Linefont
Type with Purpose
Good typography guides attention, improves understanding, and makes communication effortless.
The Anatomy of a Typeface
By FontSide · June 2026
Every typeface is a system of decisions — about stroke contrast, x-height, spacing, and rhythm. The best ones feel invisible: you stop seeing the letters and start hearing the voice behind them. That transparency is the hardest thing to design.
A high x-height opens up the counters and makes small text breathe. Tight tracking pulls a headline together; loose tracking gives a caption room to exhale. None of these choices are accidents — they are arguments about how reading should feel.
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Package Manager
The recommended way to use fonts in modern web projects.
1. Install Package
pnpm add @fontsource-variable/linefont 2. Import in App
import '@fontsource-variable/linefont/wght.css'; 3. CSS Usage
body {
font-family: "Linefont Variable", system-ui;
} Google Fonts CDN
Use Google's CDN to embed the fonts directly via HTML.
HTML <head>
<!-- Please select at least one weight and style --> Fontsource CDN
Skip the build step by adding this directly to your global CSS file.
Global CSS
/* linefont-latin-wght-normal */
@font-face {
font-family: "Linefont Variable";
font-style: normal;
font-display: swap;
font-weight: 100 900;
src: url(https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/fontsource/fonts/linefont:vf@latest/latin-wght-normal.woff2)
format("woff2-variations");
} Background & Story
Linefont is a variable font with Weight and Width axes for rendering small to medium-scale line charts.
Linefont values span from 0 to 100, assigned to different characters:
- 0-9 chars are for simplified manual input with step 10 (bar height = number).
- a-z/A-Z for manual input with step 2, softened at edges a and Z (bar height = number of letter).
- U+0100-017F for 0..127 values with step 1.
The axis range values are compatible with Wavefont by the same author, so the families can be used together with visual coherency.
To contribute, see github.com/dy/linefont.
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Install
pnpm add @fontsource-variable/linefont Designed by
Dmitry Ivanov
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License
OFL-1.1