TypeCraft Digital Foundry
Independent Type Foundry & Interactive Font Tester
TypeCraft Digital Foundry
Creator
Ahmedabad, Gujarat
Independent Type Foundry & Interactive Font Tester
Delivered
2 Rounds
The Challenge
Independent digital type designer struggled to sell custom Latin and Indic variable typefaces because buyers couldn't test custom texts, glyph sets, or variable weight axes online.
How We Started
Built specifically for typographers: live text input, variable axis manipulation, kerning inspection, and side-by-side font pairing comparisons.
Key Requirements
What We Delivered
Interactive type specimen web platform
Variable font slider and glyph inspector engine
Commercial tiered license checkout (Desktop, Web, App)
Automated font package generator and zip delivery pipeline
Engineering Timeline
OpenType.js Integration
Engineered client-side font parsing extracting exact vector outline coordinates.
Variable Axis Sliders
Linked CSS font-variation-settings to high-frequency slider controls.
Commercial Licensing Gateway
Built tiered licensing calculator matching pageview and user seat counts.
Type Designer Feedback
Refined glyph inspector with Indian type designers to support complex Indic ligatures.
Client Sign-Off & Knowledge Transfer
Completed in 2 structured revision rounds. What was handed over:
- Production deployment on Vercel with automated font CDN delivery
- Type designer font package upload and licensing price guide
- Customer license certificate generator manual
- 12 original type families launched with over 4,800 custom designed glyphs.
- Font specimen tester converts 14.8% of interactive testers into paying license buyers.
- Typefaces adopted by leading international publications and tech startups.