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We recommend spending some time with setting up your designspace properly. Questions you may ask yourself before you start with a new typeface:
We recommend spending some time with setting up your designspace properly (but it's not a problem to modify the designspace after the design started as well). Questions you may ask yourself before you start with a new typeface:
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- What axes do your font project will end up with?
- [Registerd axes](https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/typography/opentype/spec/dvaraxisreg#registered-axis-tags) like *Weight*, *Width*, *Italic*, *Optical size*
- [Registered axes](https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/typography/opentype/spec/dvaraxisreg#registered-axis-tags) like *Weight*, *Width*, *Italic*, *Optical size*
- or even a [non-registered axes (all uppercase tags)](https://fonts.google.com/variablefonts#axis-definitions?)
- What ranges will these axes have?
- maybe *Weight* from 100 to 900 (Thin to Black)
- maybe *Width* from 75 to 150 (Condensed to Wide)
- Do you plan to have *Italics*?
- Are the *Italics* real *Italics* (maybe use [Axis Type Discrete]({{ site.url }}/reference/menu/font/axes#range-axis-type-discrete))
- or are they interpolatable with the uprights, like Slanted? (maybe use [Axis Type Continuous]({{ site.url }}/reference/menu/font/axes#range-axis-type-continuous))
- Which font instances are you planing to have?
- Which font instances are you planning to have?
- Which font sources are required for this designspace?

![]({{ site.url }}/images/designspace-sketch.png){: .img-fluid }
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- Wide Thin
- Wide Black

(But keep in mind that you may need also intermediate sources to tweak the design somethere in between.)
(But keep in mind that you may need also intermediate sources to tweak the design somewhere in between.)

#### Number of font instances planned:
- Condensed Thin (width: 75, weight: 100)
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