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I don’t do the most wildly original stuff but I would definitely drawn the line at tracing something that’s only a few years old. There’s old metal type and lettering I can rip off that’s only got a … (View Post)

Typo: I meant ‘with the limited and far from entirely successful...’ Twenty years on, there are still plenty of users who have zero engagement with OpenType Layout features, and plenty of design scho… (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)

A few reflections… 1. Is it better/kinder to be disagreed with directly, or be welcomed into a club that back-pats freely? Action often rests on the individual, and it can takes years (decades) to he… (View Post)

Right! My previous comment was probably not totally fair to the people who engage in the conversation here. Are there more benefits or drawbacks in the step proposal? It seems I am one of the few env… (View Post)

Agree: if this were a system-level or app-level option available to the user, I would be all for making such an option available. In fact, I would just generally be in favor of a system that allows u… (View Post)

In case I have not been adequately clear: I don’t reject the idea of breaking down variable font interaction into ‘meaningful and useful’ steps. I just don’t think there is any benefit—and several do… (View Post)


Once you have user-generated content, you need to deal with all writing systems. No family or superfamily can do that (Noto is the closest, but it’s not the most distinguished branding font)… (View Post)

got it! thanks for clarifying. I think I was confused because this is (as far as I'm aware) a common enough approach I'm surprised there was a talk about it. people do this even implicitly, as the sy… (View Post)

Not sure what you mean by ‘stylistic needs’. Yes, there is overlap in that different projects may involve multiple weights or widths and some of those weight and width ranges overlap, but if defining… (View Post)