394 foundries,
one row each.

Every foundry in the Type Foundry Directory that sells variable fonts, or that we could not classify, checked against its buy pages, licences and store data, then re-checked by a second pass. The other 149 foundries were screened as not selling variable fonts. 219 rows have at least one verified answer. Read the paper.

Foundries in the directory

394

Listed here (sell VFs or unclear)

245

Sell subfamily VFs

22

Split only (upright/italic as separate full VFs)

15

VF without the complete family

119

Cheapest VF cheaper than the family

71

• Subfamily VF · Yes: sells a VF covering one complete subfamily (a width, optical size, posture or corner style) of a larger VF. Split only: sub-designs sold as separate full-range VFs.
• VF without complete family · Subfamily: a smaller package is needed.
• Cheapest VF vs family · compared at the same licence tier.