Panose: is there a purpose for it nowadays?
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John Hudson said:Historically, it was devised to enable font substitution in printers, which is no longer an issue.
As I understand it, there are two likely reasons to add it to the fonts:- To support some old printers (and it doesn't make much sense today).
- For possible use of these numbers in a future, in case a new useful application for this technology is found.
Erwin Denissen said:Over the past two decades, users of our font editor have discussed Panose at our forum, and they even came up with a diagram0 -
We added Panose values back to some of our fonts because certain weights weren't showing up in font menus in Word / Windows 2010. Adding the values (presumably the 'weight' value) was what fixed it. That update was in 2019.
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