Panose: is there a purpose for it nowadays?

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  • Historically, it was devised to enable font substitution in printers, which is no longer an issue.
    And another question is how a modern software/hardware used Panose numbers.
    As I understand it, there are two likely reasons to add it to the fonts:
    1. To support some old printers (and it doesn't make much sense today).
    2. For possible use of these numbers in a future, in case a new useful application for this technology is found.

    Over the past two decades, users of our font editor have discussed Panose at our forum, and they even came up with a diagram
    Yes, these visual examples are exactly what the documentation should have included. It's better to see once than read a hundred times.
  • 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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