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Re: [OTVar] Introducing OpenType variable fonts
@"Roel Nieskens" Variable fonts contain single font packaging for typefaces. I know terminology around type and font is often confused, and there isn't consistency even among type desi…2 -
Re: [OTVar] Introducing OpenType variable fonts
@"Thomas Phinney" wrote Unless I missed something very significant, what this means is that these browsers have been updated to support named instances in variable fonts, i.e. CSS font-feat…2 -
[OTVar] Naming arbitrary instances
From http://typedrawers.com/discussion/comment/22862/#Comment_22862 Generating on-the-fly names for arbitrary instances within a variations space is difficult problem. What software needs in order to…5 -
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
