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Anybody
A heavily stylised retro illustration opens the specimen before leading onto more conventional design patterns. It's a shame the aesthetic wasn't carried through to the features or back story of the typeface.
Newglyph
This is a really cool collection of specimens (as a catalogue, I suppose). Presented in a passive, scrollable format, the controls for manipulating the content ever-present at the bottom of the interface.
Helsa Display
Super simple specimen from Paratype which has glyphs and languages as different sections. There is a tool menu (which is a little obfuscated) and in here are the usual controls to manipulate the text.
Forgotten Shapes
This is a really interesting user interface and specimen format. It's a type specimen coupled with a lengthy article in a refreshing interface for swapping between the two.
Breno Var et al
Tiny stacked type testers with variable font axis controllers. Simple but effective.
Haste
A simple digital equivalent of a flyer, I suppose. Stacked images of type samples for Haste. The larger weights particularly good.
Name Sans
Refreshingly simple. A full page type tester with three variable font axis controllers. That's it!
Pulpo
An in-depth specimen trying hard to display the many features and possible applications of the typeface.
IBM Plex Sans KR
Specimen for IBM Plex Korean. Super simple, but elegantly displays the typeface at the various weights.