Hallo @jo thanks alot - at the moment i use the lissajus only to create different nice looking loops. I changed the values as you suggested and of course it is working now and delivers a new nice looking loop. I`d love to make some more loops with more "natural, subtle and slow" movements. I saw your great visualisations of the different variable font movements and hoped to create a custom path to do so - but i failed... if you like to play around with my very first 5 letter variable font (HABKU) you are very welcome. http://habaland.ch/images/habaroll8GX.ttf i added the the plus and minus to avoid the font doing the whole move to the min and max, because the backgraound would be visible then. (but most likely i created only a mess ) and by the way, i hate the black circle i had to ad "behind the scene" - id love o have a cleaner solution. ...at the moment i am trying to figure out where to append the savedState() without messing everything up... greetings from Bern

Ahh this is a very clear-headed approach. Thanks for showing me how it's done! This is very helpful.

I suspect there's a way to do it by somehow drawing the straight lines in the glyphs as curves and pulling the off-curve points various distances away from being collinear with the on-curve points, in one direction or another, as I change the position of those on-curve points. But, I still struggle to figure out how to tell which are which, in a list of a curve's points, or to write a set of on-curve and off-curve points to a curve to create a shape on purpose—I know what quadratic and cubic curves are, but the order/syntax of the points in the path escapes me. So it may be a long while before I figure anything out …

thanks a lot

@frederik Thanks. Will have a look which type gives the best result. To use the actual font sounds like a good choice though. In Processing (where I made this animation first) I used SVG, but mainly because it's almost impossible to work with type in Processing. Curious which one is faster also.

@frederik Got it. Thanks!