FWIW: Appending "VF" or "Variable" to the family name could be problematic for customers: e.g. I have a variable font and author a doc then send it to you, who has the static font… (View Post)
Today is the 30th anniversary of the Apple / Microsoft joint announcement of TrueType. Greg Hitchcock posted a little retrospective of it here (sprinkled with Greg's usual blend of obscure trivia and… (View Post)
Just an amusing follow-up to John's comment showing Palatino Linotype's spiral .notdef: The spiral appeared only in the Regular weight. The other styles had different .notdef characters. The full ran… (View Post)
Yes, variations easily lets you have negative advance widths with simple interpolation: E.g. A single axis font (ranging from -1 to 0, with default at 0), with default instance having htmx AW = 500. … (View Post)
I believe that's got the most recent changes before they migrated the site. It appears that we've never published the TSI* table specifications. Obviously, we'll have to change that before open sour… (View Post)