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Re: [OTVar] Introducing OpenType variable fonts
Chris, yes, you've got it: font makers will design as they do already, with multiple master design sources, and font tools will write this to the variable font as a single set of outlines and de…3 -
Re: [OTVar] Introducing OpenType variable fonts
James P, interoperable implementation is one of the central goals of how Font Variations has been developed and spec'd. It's been a very different process from OpenType Layout, for which th…7 -
[OTVar] Introducing OpenType variable fonts
A single font that behaves like multiple fonts As I post this, colleagues from Microsoft, Google, Apple, and Adobe are at ATypI 2016 in Warsaw making the first public announcement of the OpenType Fon…13 -
Re: A new approach to spacing?
This presumes that the person making the font lacks the experience and knowledge to be able to first set default spacing and then implement adjustment spacing in a way that minimises the latter. Defa…4 -
Re: Is one.osf.ss01 a valid glyph name?
Yes. Everything after the first . is ignored by Acrobat name-to-character parsing.5
