Synthview Type Design has published Rosamer, a display typeface by Héloïse Blume and Jan Tonellato inspired by the movement of squid tentacles. Its swash-like flourishes can be tightened or stretched along three custom variable axes, one each for upper, horizontal and lower strokes. It ships as a variable font and in static OpenType, with 52 ligatures and support for some 220 Latin-script languages.
splitting the swashes into three separate axes gives designers real control over a genre that usually offers only on or off.