Kunio

I released Kunio on January 24, 2023 as a paid variable font. The goal was to explore the potential of variable font technology through an Art Deco lens. Rather than a static design, Kunio allows users to adjust two axes, which I called “body” and “counter.” By sliding these axes, the weight of the strokes and the openness of the counters can be tuned independently, producing over a million possible variations. I included a few presets as starting points, but the real purpose was to let users experiment freely.

Kunio exists only as a variable font; I did not produce static instances. The character set includes extended Latin coverage. There have been no updates since the initial release, and it has not yet found its way into any notable projects. For me, Kunio was more of a laboratory project—an experiment in recursive adjustability rather than a conventional family release.