The Axis-Praxis list of resources on variable fonts is live: articles, videos, podcasts and code 1991–2018. https://www.axis-praxis.org/resources Hope you like it! Please let me know if there are mis… (View Post)
I thought people might be interested in this animation I put together (based on photographs by Eadweard Muybridge) to understand how efficent it can be with variable fonts and CSS animation. Variable… (View Post)
Without special handling for tracking, the most efficient way to adjust a font’s tracking is to edit the LSB and advance width of each glyph in the hmtx table. These two points (taken from hmtx, not … (View Post)
HZ justification is certainly possible now thanks to the wdth axis. I think the scales can be normalized fairly easily in a UI, if the app runs tests on typical strings. Another challenge will be how… (View Post)
I encourage anyone interested in Variations Fonts to read the draft CSS spec carefully: https://drafts.csswg.org/css-fonts-4/#low-level-font-variation-settings-control-the-font-variation-settings-pro… (View Post)