For those of you who have not seen it on Twitter, I wrote a
blog post meditating on some of the things that we can do with COLRv1 fonts which aren't too easy to surface in our font editors, and ended up meditating on some of the things that we can do with
variable fonts which aren't too easy to surface in our font editors.
I'd enjoy hearing any feedback or reflections.
Comments
Broadly speaking, I appreciate your ability to distill the more complex type design topics into human friendly blog posts. Many of your previous writings are approachable and also technical. This is a skill within itself. Many experts who publish documentation on type, fail to acknowledge the inapproachability of their work, especially when they've spent multiple years learning what they're trying to document.
I'm so glad you're in the type industry!
Not the kind of product I would want to bother anyone with at this point. Too much small print required. Again.
For my most recent variable fonts for Google, it isn’t even remotely plausible to have a good set of predefined static instances available. There would be too many to work in an app like PowerPoint, that just uses a normal font menu and has no other access to axes. So in the end, I am making 4-axis fonts that last I recall, will display in PowerPoint as 7–9 standard weights, and no other variation options. (Yes, this is more limited than it has to be.)