I know this stuff is hard and type designers are trying to be helpful to one another, and so I genuinely don't mean to be snarky but... throwing out these lists and (particularly) images of glyphs u… (View Post)
I think it could. However, the Fleischman comment is on point. Many fonts will turn out to appear very similar, because they both copied something else. And we're in a very funny world if A and B bo… (View Post)
I still think we're engaging at cross purposes. Improving the UI that applications expose for using variable fonts is an absolutely fine idea. I don't think anyone disagrees. Altering the underlying … (View Post)
In a variable font, there are infinite options for the font user by default; you are talking about taking them away and restricting them to a smaller subset. A good example for why this is a bad ide… (View Post)