--- title: Hel: A 3-Axis, Obliterated Variable Font | daily.dev description: Hel is a deliberately distorted variable font with three customizable axes: Slant for faux italics, Warp for character distortion effects, and Shrink for... canonical: https://daily.dev/posts/hel-a-3-axis-obliterated-variable-font-lel2vyvse twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:site: @dailydotdev og:type: website og:site_name: daily.dev og:title: Hel: A 3-Axis, Obliterated Variable Font | daily.dev og:description: Hel is a deliberately distorted variable font with three customizable axes: Slant for faux italics, Warp for character distortion effects, and Shrink for... og:url: https://daily.dev/posts/hel-a-3-axis-obliterated-variable-font-lel2vyvse og:image: https://api.daily.dev/og/posts/lEL2vyvsE.png og:image:alt: Hel: A 3-Axis, Obliterated Variable Font og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 630 og:locale: en --- > ## Documentation Index > Fetch the complete documentation index at: https://daily.dev/llms.txt > Use this file to discover all available pages before exploring further. # Hel: A 3-Axis, Obliterated Variable Font **[HeydonWorks](https://daily.dev/sources/heydonworks)** · 3 min read · 1 upvotes · 0 comments ## Summary Hel is a deliberately distorted variable font with three customizable axes: Slant for faux italics, Warp for character distortion effects, and Shrink for baseline disruption. The font includes 80 glyphs, 15 contextual alternates, and is designed for creating gritty, DIY aesthetic web pages while maintaining performance through CSS font-variation-settings animation rather than resource-intensive SVG filters. ## Full article daily.dev links to this article rather than hosting it. 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