AP.CXIndependent type foundry

About

Another Planet Creative Experience is an independent type foundry focused on fonts, digital specimens, and design systems.

The site is built as a precise, static-first publishing surface for type families and the people behind them. It combines specimen views, technical metadata, and editorial presentation in a single system.

AP.CX is also a working lab for interactive typography, variable font tooling, and design-to-code workflows. The focus is clarity, speed, and durable publishing rather than marketing excess.

Workflow

The studio works with a practical vibe-coding workflow: fast prototyping, direct edits in the browser, and small feedback loops between design, code, and production output. The goal is not novelty for its own sake, but a shorter path from idea to a working specimen, tool, or interface.

That workflow also extends into type production through the Glyphs MCP, which connects Glyphs.app to scripting and agent-driven workflows for repetitive font editing tasks, review passes, and production support.

Services

  • Custom fonts for product, brand, and editorial systems.
  • Icon fonts and symbol sets for digital interfaces.
  • Custom SF Symbols style icon work for macOS and iOS projects.

Depending on the brief, that can include drawing, spacing, production files, variable font setup, implementation support, and integration into app or design-system workflows.

Tools We Love and Use

  • FontGauntlet for stress-testing shaping, script coverage, and rendering behavior across longer text samples and more difficult edge cases.
  • Font Metrics for reading spacing and vertical metrics more directly when a family needs a quick, technical check outside the editor.

Other tools worth a look: FontGoggles for live comparison and shaping checks across multiple fonts and sources, and Wakamai Fondue for a fast browser-based read on OpenType features and what a font can actually do.

Thanks

Thank you to the Glyphs team for their support and for building an unusually solid set of tools around type design and production.

Thank you to Yugop Nakamura, creator of the original scramble-on-text effect, and one of the interactive designers whose work shaped a large part of the field and my own path through it.

Thank you to Tolis C. for use-scramble and the project site at use-scramble.dev.

Thank you to Inter and Rasmus Andersson for the inspiration behind the font page approach, and more broadly for the many open-source tools and scripts he has released over the years.

Thank you as well to the developers behind Fontkit.

The font pages also rely on a few important open-source tools, including opentype.js for parsing and extracting font metadata, and scrollama for the scrolly specimen sections.