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Contrast

Contrast is the difference between the thick and thin parts of a letterform’s stroke, and creates the angle of stress within a type design. Monolinear typefaces have low stroke contrast, unlike high-contrast faces. A typical trait of a typeface with varying optical sizes is that display sizes have higher contrast than body sizes.

“Through Thick & Thin”, with each word set in a drastically different typeface. Circles are used to highlight parts of the letterforms where contrast is evident.

Serif typefaces tend to have higher contrast strokes than sans serif designs.

Contrast can be controlled and fine-tuned in variable fonts with parametric axis that adjust thick strokes (XOPQ) and thin strokes (YOPQ) independently.

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