Open type Glyph table version 1

mitradranirban
mitradranirban Posts: 135
in Type Design Technique & Theory
Is the proposal to include cubic bezier in .ttf fonts accepted by OpenType?
If enabled, what will be its pros and cons over cff/cff2? 
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  • John Hudson
    John Hudson Posts: 3,638
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    I don’t know what the status of this idea is, but I have not heard anything about it for a long time. One of the key attractions of the idea was to make the TrueType instruction (hinting) model applicable to cubic outlines and, of course, avoiding having to convert outlines from the type industry’s overwhelmingly cubic design sources to quadratic production output.

    The CFF2 fornat is in some ways an improvement on CFF, which was really just a separate font file format stuck in an OpenType sfnt wrapper. CFF2 is better integrated into the overall OT format. So I am not sure whether there is the same level of interest in cubic outlines in the Glyph table as there was 10+ years ago.

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