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Re: Why don't we hear about more use of variable fonts on the Web?
No. Similar to non-variable fonts, there are two flavours (quadratic versus cubic bezier curves), but that is taken care of internally in the font resource. Variable fonts with quadratic based outlin…2 -
Re: OpenType feature for positioning base glyph according to diacritic mark
Earlier this month I held a presentation for ATypI Tech Talks 2022, that showed how to add Kerning Triplets to a variable font. Here is a tutorial:Variable Contextual Kerning – Triplets1 -
Re: Variable fonts
To make the two variable fonts work as one family, you need to include information about the differences between them. In this case the italic axis is the missing link, so you will need to include it…1 -
Re: Variable fonts
To make it work, the separate roman and italic variable fonts need to have the same font family name, but different style names for the named instances, and different elided fallback names. The fonts…1 -
Re: Dreaming of a new feature syntax
This can be done with FontCreator. It allows you to add it through the OpenType Designer, but it also supports the variable fea syntax. languagesystem latn dflt; @sc = [a.smcp-z.smcp]; feature ss01 {…4
