Explore axis for variability / bounciness (also find the right name for it) about shantell-sans

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Chrome deactivates calt if text has letter-spacing ... so, you’ll need to look for a different opentype feature to store the randomization in.

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Observation: the same amount of shifting seems more prominent in lighter styles than in bolder styles. I wonder why...

Probable answer: the glyphs were unintentionally shifted more than once, and it added up. The max shift should be 200 but is about 400, ergo it probably happened twice.

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Character shape changing strategy:

• measure approximate changes in Photoshop or Illustrator and note it, e.g. N is 80% height, 125% width
• copy glyphs to a "transformed" layer, then transform them by proportions at, above, and below these changes
• adjust letters to match these these transforms, keeping stroke thicknesses similar

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Next up:

• make "organic" UFO where the default is sized differently, alt1 is medium, and alt2 is sized in the default way.
  • This will require interpolation between "organic" and "normal" UFOs... just make a python script & you’ll figure it out.
• Adjust a few key glyphs, like the ampersand, to have more-different forms

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• make A smaller
• maybe change all main glyph sizes, to make sure the “Organic” axis is obvious?

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I think the final decisions here are:

• Naming the axes Weight (wght), Bounciness (BNCY), and Irregularity (IRGL)
• 3 alts for most glyphs, plus one extra to disrupt patterns where needed. (#21)