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Re: Variable fonts, axes values
Because the CSS weight range is defined as a number between 1 and 1000, so within the defined weight range of a given variable font as mapped to the CSS weight scale, any number is meaningful at the …1 -
Re: Variable fonts, axes values
Indeed. Thinking about this in terms of ‘user level’, analogous to zoom level in a map or in an image is useful. There are always going to be situations in which less data is more practically useful …1 -
Re: Type design hot takes
The full page reproductions in the Scholderer book include the background page, and collotype handles it very well. If the background is applied after the fact, then printing it in a spot colour is t…2 -
Re: Variable fonts, axes values
The user doesn’t have 800 variants. The user has a continuum of fractional values across a design space. The font maker can choose to label locations in that design space in meaningful ways, but can’…1 -
Re: Type design hot takes
Collotype for the win.2
