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Re: glyf (i.e. contour) analysis reports on libre fonts.
The font validator warnings were supposedly written around 2000, but newer Microsoft fonts like Calibri in fact do use overlapping components, so probably this warning can safely be ignored now.6 -
Re: [OTVar] Defining instances in the font vs. defining instances in CSS
The rounding error is actually twice that, because what we see is a stem, i.e. the black distance between two lines. Each point on either side of the stem has up to 0.5 units rounding error, so the s…2 -
Re: [OTVar] Introducing OpenType variable fonts
I did a quick test with two styles, Light and Extra Bold. Raw TTF (unhinted): 286 kB (143 kB each) Packed into a TTC: 261 kB Compressed as WOFF2: 66 kB Same as TTF/GX (via Glyphs export): 191 kB Com…3 -
Re: /gbreve in current events
It’s all a question of doing the math ... a composite with 2 components takes up 24 bytes in the glyf table. Plus a loca entry, hmtx entry, kerning etc., amounting to 88 bytes of data that is saved …3 -
Re: Fraction Slash
Interesting. To me, having gone to school in Germany, horizontal fraction bars are the way it «should look», as it is the only way taught in school. The diagonal fractions are the quirky version to m…5
