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Re: Is Multiple Substitution decomposing a lig. glyph?, when and why you have to do it
It doesn't need to decompose a ligature - it just substitutes one glyph with more than one glyph. See some examples here: https://simoncozens.github.io/fonts-and-layout/features-2.html#multiple-subst…3 -
Re: Enabling stylistic sets (e.g. ss02) with fonttools
Adam's OTF Feature Freezer might do what you want.3 -
Re: Variable fonts, axes values
I still think we're engaging at cross purposes. Improving the UI that applications expose for using variable fonts is an absolutely fine idea. I don't think anyone disagrees. Altering the underlying …2 -
Re: Variable fonts, axes values
For me, there's another philosophical issue here: creative progress often comes by using tools in ways that the manufacturer of the tool did not imagine, and by doing things that are "not allowe…3 -
Re: Variable fonts, axes values
What you're talking about is indeed named instances. But locking the font to named instance steps with an avar table as Erwin suggests is really user-hostile. If the user asks for a 721 weight, just …1
