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TTC — Collection of Two Variable Fonts

A collection whose members are themselves variable fonts, each with its own axis, fvar, gvar and STAT. The case that breaks loaders which handle collections or variations but never both at once. Original typeface, free to use.

Preview — schema + first 2 rowsttc
indexintegerfamilystringstylestringpostScriptNamestringglyphsinteger
0Novus Grotesk VFRegular (wght 300-900)NovusGroteskVF-Regular69
1Novus Grotesk VF WidthRegular (wdth 75-125)NovusGroteskVFWdth-Regular69
Two variable faces inside one collection container, each with its own axis.

Specifications

Family
Novus Grotesk VF
Units Per Em
1000
Cap Height
700
X Height
500
Wave
p7
Seed
20260807
Built With
fontTools 4.x
Determinism
head.created/head.modified pinned to 2026-01-01T00:00:00Z, recalcTimestamp off; outlines are parametric, colour material is seeded
Usage Rights
original artwork, free for any use
Faces
2
Face0
wght 300..400..900
Face1
wdth 75..100..125
Share Tables
false
Each Face Has
its own fvar, gvar, HVAR and STAT
File Bytes
22312

Testing contract

Expected to pass
Scenario
Open face 0 and face 1 by index and read fvar from each.
Expected result
Face 0 reports a wght axis and face 1 a wdth axis; instancing either one works without disturbing the other, and neither inherits the other's variation tables.

What is a .ttc file?

A TrueType Collection (.ttc) is a single file that bundles several related fonts, sharing common tables (like glyph outlines) to save space. It is used to ship font families or CJK fonts with many variants in one file. A font index selects which face inside the collection to use.

How to use this file

Use an example .ttc to test collection-aware font loaders, font-index selection, and tools that split a collection back into individual TTF/OTF files.

How to use this file for testing

“TTC — Collection of Two Variable Fonts” is a deterministic Novus Examples fixture for Conversion testing, Metadata testing. The same content exported across many formats and linked as a group, so you can convert one and diff against the expected twin.

Documented properties for this file: seed 20260807. Compare results against paired or grouped companions on this page when present (clean↔damaged, searchable↔scanned, or format twins) so scores stay reproducible across runs.

Download the file once, keep the path stable in CI or local scripts, and treat the spec table as the contract: dimensions, seeds, field lists, and roles are intentional. Corrupt or invalid samples are labelled as such — expect parsers to fail loudly rather than silently accept them.

Font fixtures carry a small documented glyph set across the common wrappers. Test font loaders, subsetting, and @font-face; the specimen preview renders the glyphs the face actually maps.

Generated by generation/fonts_p7.py. Free for any use, no attribution required — license.