Animated glyph based on multi-axis variable font

A method for animating variable fonts, comprising:

• receiving, at an operating system executing on a computer device, a request to one or more glyphs of a variable font in a design space based on one or more animation parameters;
• determining, at the operating system, an animation path in the design space for the one or more glyphs based on the animation parameters;
• calculating a set of keyframes having respective keyframe positions along the animation path by:
• determining one or more master positions in the design space;
• determining one or more regions of influence from the one or more master positions along the animation path, wherein each region of influence defines an area where a geometry of the variable font changes non-linearly;
• identifying one or more intersection points of the one or more master positions with the one or more regions of influence;
• and
• at each intersection point of the one or more intersection points, assigning a keyframe position;
• constructing glyph outline data of the one or more glyphs for each keyframe in the set of keyframes;
• generating intermediate glyph outline data at one or more intermediate positions between the keyframe positions;
• and
• transmitting the glyph outline data and the intermediate glyph outline data.

A non-transitory computer-readable medium storing instructions executable by a computer device, comprising:

• at least one instruction for causing the computer device to receive a request to animate one or more glyphs of a variable font in a design space based on one or more animation parameters;
• at least one instruction for causing the computer device to determine an animation path in the design space for the one or more glyphs based on the animation parameters;
• at least one instruction for causing the computer device to calculate a set of keyframes having respective keyframe positions along the animation path by:
• determining one or more master positions in the design space;
• determining one or more regions of influence from the one or more master positions along the animation path, wherein each region of influence defines an area where a geometry of the variable font changes non-linearly;
• identifying one or more intersection points of the one or more master positions with the one or more regions of influence;
• and
• at each intersection point of the one or more intersection points, assigning a keyframe position;
• at least one instruction for causing the computer device to construct glyph outline data for the one or more glyphs for each keyframe in the set of keyframes;
• at least one instruction for causing the computer device to generate intermediate glyph outline data at one or more intermediate positions between the keyframe positions;
• and
• at least one instruction for causing the computer device to transmit the glyph outline data and the intermediate glyph outline data.