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Re: Negative slnt values as per VF spec
@"Peter Constable" might be able to provide a more complete answer. This is my understanding from my memory of the meetings:The STAT table was designed around variation axis architecture, e…2 -
Re: The “ti” ligature
This is what I consider a stylistic ligature rather than a functional one. It doesn’t affect spacing, and is really just a mimicking of handwriting behaviour in which a crossbar naturally connects to…5 -
Re: Negative slnt values as per VF spec
CSS already distinguished italic and oblique.In context of OTvar, the slnt axis affects slant, and the ital axis affects type style; the latter mainly exists to provide an one-to-one mapping between …2 -
Re: Primework
This is something which which I substantially agree.I have a presentation on this topic — Problems of Adjacency — at TypeCon 2014 (for copyright reasons, the video does not include the footage of a n…2 -
Re: Negative slnt values as per VF spec
Again, this is assuming that the UX is dumb. A better UX for a slant variation would default to zero in the middle, and you would drag to the left to slant to the left, and to the right to slant to t…6
