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[OTVar] OpenType 1.8.1 released
We've just published a new minor-version update of the OpenType spec: OpenType 1.8.1. This update was primarily aimed at refinements related to OpenType Font Variations, but there were a few non-vari…11 -
[OTVar] OpenType minor update in preparation
We are preparing a minor update to the OpenType spec that will appear soon. For the most part, this will provide clarifications or correction of errors in describing the new table formats used for va…2 -
Re: [OTVar] Suggestion to record in the font whether an axis affects metrics or not
If there were some automated algorithms in which layout engines were tweaking an axis value several times to arrive at some desired result, then there could be a performance benefit of being able to …1 -
Re: Windows 8 doesn't like "Book" weight?
The behaviour in the Windows Fonts control panel and in the CHOOSEFONT common dialog seen in Notepad is due to a particular component that was introduced in Windows 7 that was trying to broaden the u…1 -
Re: [OTVar] Introducing OpenType variable fonts
The "meta" in "metafont" suggests some abstraction of a font, which could imply a lot of different things. But "Metafont" was a particular technology that used particula…4
