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"If DirectWrite supports all color formats, how come not all browsers support them?"
Somebody asked me this question and found my answer helpful, so I thought I'd share it here. As a reminder, the OpenType spec defines four formats for colour glyph, using the COLR table, the SVG tabl…3 -
Re: Oblique and Italic in same family
For certain reasons, and after some discussion, we (MS, Adobe, Apple, Google and others) ended up deciding to make slant and italic separate sub-family-variant axes in the extended-family model that …4 -
Re: Proper weight instance progression for a multiple master
Just a quick note: in an OpenType variable font, you can use an 'avar' table to tweak a weight progression when interpolating between two "masters".1 -
Re: Which OpenType feature could I use instead of contextual alternates?
These aren't swashes. It's not clear to me that "contextual" is really relevant either: you're not substituting (say) the default "m" with a different glyph when it's preceded or …3 -
Re: Egyptian Hieroglyphs
There is work still in progress in the Unicode Standard to introduce control characters that can be used to compose complex Egyptian hieroglyphs from the atomic elements (those that are already encod…4
