Ductus
Independent variable type foundry theme built around a working tool rather than a passive showcase. The hero is a live specimen tester with real weight and width sliders, so visitors drag to see an actual variable font interpolate across its design space in the browser. The palette is stark print-specimen white, black and indigo, closer to a type foundry's own type sheets than a typical marketing site. It's built for foundries that want the product itself to be the demo.
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Highlights
- Live variable-font specimen tester with real weight/width/optical sliders
- A working tool as the hero, not a passive canvas
- Stark print-specimen white/black/indigo palette
- Per-typeface specimen pages with the same interactive axis controls
Overview
Ductus breaks from every prior skeleton in this catalogue: the hero isn’t a passive canvas to scroll past, it’s a working tool — a live variable-font specimen tester with real sliders that actually manipulate a real typeface’s weight/width/optical-size axes in the browser, the way a type foundry’s own site should let visitors audition a typeface before buying it.
The palette is a stark print-specimen white/black/electric-indigo system, and each typeface gets its own specimen page with the same interactive axis controls — a foundry selling variable fonts needs visitors to feel the variability, not just read about it.
What's included
- Full theme source — every template, style sheet & script
- One-click demo importer (idempotent, no page builder)
- Live Customizer controls for copy, colours & content
- Translation-ready .pot file + RTL stylesheet
- HTML documentation + a CHANGELOG file
- Lifetime updates + 6 months support (renewable)
Specifications
| WordPress | 5.6 – 7.0 |
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| PHP | 8.0 – 8.3 |
| Browsers | Chrome, Firefox, Safari, Edge (latest) |
| Layout | Fully responsive, mobile → desktop |
| Localization | Translation-ready · RTL included |
| Accessibility | Keyboard-navigable · prefers-reduced-motion |
| Page builder | Not required — native Customizer |
| License | GNU GPL v2 · single-site commercial |
Release
The complete, dated version history ships in the theme’s CHANGELOG file. Every purchase includes lifetime access to future updates.
