This project was started in an afternoon during a guest lecture on Variable Fonts by Laurence Penney at the TDi 2017 type design summer course at the University of Reading.
It currently consists of a simple macOS app that can read a font’s axes and dynamically creates controls to change them, as well as an editable text view. There is also a (currently basically empty) iOS project in the workspace which will use multi-touch to enable changing of several axes at once.
Due to its use of NSCollectionViewDataSource, the macOS project requires at least macOS 10.11 to compile.
The name “Goldberg” is a reference to J. S. Bach’s Goldberg Variations (BWV 988). I love both Bach’s music and the occasional pun …