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Re: Are these enough nodes to draw up an oval with just 2 points? Nothing to do with hinting
For most font purposes, and at least some graphics purposes, I would say that designing an oval that way is “bad.” But the context matters—a lot. Otherwise we don’t know what might be rendering these…1 -
Re: What’s happening with FontBakery? Is Fontspector the future?
@"John Savard" You wrote “the writer of the software” when you probably should have written “the owner of the software.” If you check the FontBakery copyright notice, you will see that the …1 -
Re: New font testing page
Also, although variable fonts are generally supported and most things work, for some reason it seems to dislike the “slnt” axis; it has no effect. At least, not the one in Science Gothic.1 -
Re: Letters changing shape from upright → oblique
When you say both upright and oblique are in the same font file, I as assuming you are doing a variable font with a slant or italic axis? If so, what you need to do is have two glyphs for each of the…2 -
Re: What’s happening with FontBakery? Is Fontspector the future?
Same set of tests as Fontbakery. Same profiles. (Modulo perhaps a VERY few brand new tests since Fontbakery has been winding down.) Basically, everything that all the major players doing profiles, wa…2
