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Re: Variable fonts, axes values
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…1 -
Is i18n the web-safe minefield of the 2020s?
Enjoying Figma's config conference (ongoing now) and was slightly astonished by the talk just passed "How we internationalized our typography stack". Expecting this to be a fun voyage of in…3 -
Re: Figma supports variable fonts!
InDesign does not even consistently maintain axis settings when changing to another font that shares the same axis. I hope Adobe learns to walk before it tries to run, in its variable font support.4 -
Re: Variable fonts, axes values
I so hate that Adobe split Minion 3 into four families by optical size. Grrr. Meant that upgrading existing docs to Minion 3 was substantially more work.1 -
Re: Variable fonts, axes values
Indeed. The wght axis is explicitly weight, not emphasis or other typographic articulation. I must remember to go give Simon a hard time about this on Twitter. :#2 -
Re: Figma supports variable fonts!
Hopefully we'll see some market competition driven innovation ;) I appreciate Figma's leadership in this arena.4 -
Re: Is i18n the web-safe minefield of the 2020s?
yes, I am familiar with internationalization. are you implying their strategy is "custom for those languages supported by custom, fall back to system for those that aren't"?1 -
Re: Variable fonts, axes values
@"Florian Pircher" Exactly. Any specific location in the design space is an instance or, if you like, a potential instance waiting to be instantiated by being selected and displayed. Named …1 -
Re: Variable fonts, axes values
Say you have a font with two axes, both offering 10 steps. That’s already 10 × 10 = 100 instances. 100 instances are probably more than anyone would regularly check for quality issues, so I don’t th…1 -
Re: Variable fonts, axes values
Useful and meaningful to whom? In what situations? A useful and meaningful selection of instances for a signage project is likely to be different from that for a product design project, which is diff…1
