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A new Wakamai Fondue
Hi everybody, a new version of Wakamai Fondue was just released at the Fontstand conference in Berlin: https://wakamaifondue.com It's now using LibFont instead of Fontkit which allows me to dig …4 -
Re: Optical sizes for icon fonts for the web
It is hard to know how marketable optical sizes for icon fonts might be, when Google’s Material Symbols is libre (open source). I have in fact done production on such a font... but that would be Goog…2 -
Re: Hinting Variable Fonts
This turned out not to be quite true. Generating the CVTs and taking the deltas was easy; the problem is that the hint plan may differ across locations in the designspace. I think I've found a …1 -
Re: New algorithm: Italify – optically corrected obliques
The open-source version will not be developed further. It will stay open-source though. The successor will be a paid plugin.1 -
Re: How did you used to do interpolations without middle masters?
Glyphs App came out 15 years ago now, in 2011! I was using pre-release versions of FontLab 6. Before that I did the exact same trick Mark describes.1 -
Re: W3C Incremental Font Transfer (IFT) is now a candidate recommendation
A little update: I tried to generate some IFT fonts+patches using the ift-encoder and it failed in two cases, BUT Garret Rieger works actively on it and wrote this: „I'm hoping to get it to a mo…3 -
Re: Variable Fonts: Interview Requests
@"Thomas Phinney" Good question and that reminds me that I meant to change the word from “will be published’ to “may be published” (editing post now). Right now, to be perfectly honest, I d…1 -
Re: Variable Fonts: Interview Requests
UPDATE: I am specifically looking for *recent type design graduates* from any of the programmes: Reading, KABK, TypeWest, Type @ Cooper, MATD, etc. If you’re just starting your type design career, I’…1 -
Re: How did you used to do interpolations without middle masters?
Like James, I would do production with UFOs and Superpolator, which would allow the use of an intermediate master UFO that only contained the glyphs that I wanted to adjust, akin to a “brace” layer i…1 -
Re: New algorithm: Italify – optically corrected obliques
After the discussion went a bit off the rails, let me quickly go to bat for what the plugin currently makes possible: I'm not heavily into font production, but ten years of customer feedback (bo…3
