Twenty-five years after Hoefler & Frere-Jones designed it for a 2001 GQ cover, Gotham has been quietly reverse-engineered into Gotham Variable — a single performance-optimised file with continuous control across weight and width, 54 new intermediate styles, and a new Compact width tuned for tighter text-setting. Lead designer Sara Soskolne, who has worked on Gotham’s expansions for nearly two decades, kept the release fully backwards compatible: the type didn’t become a Gotham 2.0, only a more fluid Gotham. Expanded language support — Vietnamese with stacked accents, refined Cyrillic and Bulgarian — quietly extends the family without breaking its DNA. Source: Creative Bloq