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Re: Seeking Advice and Help from Type Techies
First, you need to confirm license permission to use and to modify the font. Just because a font is available for free download somewhere on the Web does not mean it is legitimately available under a…2 -
Re: Variable fonts, axes values
Typo: I meant ‘with the limited and far from entirely successful...’ Twenty years on, there are still plenty of users who have zero engagement with OpenType Layout features, and plenty of design scho…3 -
Re: Variable fonts, axes values
In case I have not been adequately clear: I don’t reject the idea of breaking down variable font interaction into ‘meaningful and useful’ steps. I just don’t think there is any benefit—and several do…3 -
Re: lack of 2 important FOSSs abilities for making variable fonts
Extrapolation beyond the design space defined by variations axes is not possible in the OpenType format but it should be possible in font creation tools, and should apply to all glyph data including …4 -
Re: Variable fonts, axes values
Except the masters don’t actually exist in an OT variable font, other than the default instance outlines. Everything else is expressed as deltas from the default instance, so while one can presume th…2
