Aligna is developed to improve the standards of typesetting on contemporary web browsers. The variable typeface offers a combined axis drawn to fill up the white space without recognising it. By maintaining control over the two extreme points, the trade-off between the loss of qualitative typesetting

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and the distortion of the character can be avoided. Regardless of its width, the typeface will sustain the typographical grey. Aligna can be combined with an algorithm that distributes the existing white space on a line. For research purposes, a parametric font has served to evaluate the influence of different typographical factors. Aligna contains the respective ideal value of each examination point, combined as a variable font with one single combined axis.

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