@"Thomas Phinney" : OK, I can't resist the pun: "FontLab VI, our ultra bold font editor" But what if I want to design other weights? ;-) Congratulations to everyone at FontLab on … (View Post)
To provide a more detail beyond what Simon said (a bit technical, but useful to understand): Digital text has an encoded form, which almost ubiquitously is Unicode. This assigns a numeric encoding fo… (View Post)
And now a third proposal, this also from Renzhi: for a PPEM axis. See the proposal details here: https://github.com/Microsoft/OpenTypeDesignVariationAxisTags/tree/master/Proposals/PPEM_Axis This prop… (View Post)
See the Typo Labs presentation by Akiem Helmling and Bas Jocobs, starting around 17:00 to 20:40. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eZiP_TIa96g (View Post)
I'd add to what Dave said: Software that supports variable fonts is likely to support whatever axes are in a given font, custom or registered, in terms of exposing in UI and ability to select and use… (View Post)