TTF — Variable Font, Four Registered Axes
All four registered axes in one face — weight, width, slant and optical size — from eight axis-extreme masters. The font a variation UI should be tested against before it meets a real four-axis release. Original typeface, free to use.
The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog
ABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZ
abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz
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12pxThe quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog
16pxThe quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog
20pxThe quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog
28pxThe quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog
40pxThe quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog
Specifications
- Family
- Novus Grotesk VF Four
- 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
- Axes
- wght 300..400..900; wdth 75..100..125; slnt -12..0..0; opsz 8..14..72
- Masters
- 8
- Named Instances
- 4
- Tables
- fvar, gvar, HVAR, STAT, glyf
- Glyphs
- 69
Testing contract
Expected to pass- Scenario
- Build an axis UI from fvar and STAT, then set all four axes at once.
- Expected result
- Four axes are reported with correct ranges and defaults; slnt has max equal to its default, opsz defaults to 14 rather than to its minimum, and every combination renders without falling back.
What is a .ttf file?
TTF (TrueType Font) is a scalable outline font format developed by Apple and Microsoft that uses quadratic Bezier curves and includes hinting for sharp rendering at small sizes. It stores glyph outlines, metrics, and character mappings in a single file. It is one of the most widely supported desktop and web font formats.
How to use this file
Use an example TTF to test font parsers, glyph and metric extraction, text-rendering pipelines, and converters that produce web font formats like WOFF.
How to use this file for testing
“TTF — Variable Font, Four Registered Axes” is a deterministic Novus Examples fixture for Conversion testing, Web assets, 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.
Code examples
@font-face {
font-family: "Sample";
src: url("NovusGroteskVF-four-axis.ttf");
}
body { font-family: "Sample", sans-serif; }Related files
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- ttfTTF — Static Instance, Black (wght 900)A real static instance cut from the wght variable font at 900 — outlines interpolated once and baked, fvar and gvar stripped, usWeightClass set to match. For testing static-versus-variable fallback paths and family/style grouping. Original typeface, free to use.
- ttfTTF — Static Instance, Bold (wght 700)A real static instance cut from the wght variable font at 700 — outlines interpolated once and baked, fvar and gvar stripped, usWeightClass set to match. For testing static-versus-variable fallback paths and family/style grouping. Original typeface, free to use.
- ttfTTF — Static Instance, Condensed Bold (wght 700, wdth 75)A two-axis instance baked out of the weight-by-width variable font, with both usWeightClass and usWidthClass set to match. For testing that a family grouper reads width from OS/2 rather than guessing it from the style name. Original typeface, free to use.
- ttfTTF — Static Instance, Light (wght 300)A real static instance cut from the wght variable font at 300 — outlines interpolated once and baked, fvar and gvar stripped, usWeightClass set to match. For testing static-versus-variable fallback paths and family/style grouping. Original typeface, free to use.
- ttfTTF — Static Instance, Medium (wght 500)A real static instance cut from the wght variable font at 500 — outlines interpolated once and baked, fvar and gvar stripped, usWeightClass set to match. For testing static-versus-variable fallback paths and family/style grouping. Original typeface, free to use.
Generated by generation/fonts_p7.py. Free for any use, no attribution required — license.