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[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: [OTVar] Introducing OpenType variable fonts
[Suddenly wishing TypeDrawers had nested discussion threads.]6 -
Re: A new approach to spacing?
It's worth taking a moment to consider what this means, given that, at least in my experience, a font is a particular instance of a typeface and seldom represents a final statement. Typefaces ge…3 -
Re: A new approach to spacing?
Yes, not least a convenient interface with which to quickly judge whether one wants to rely on this tool for spacing or not. I am reminded of a comment that Eliazer Kohen, the inventer of OpenType ma…1 -
Re: A new approach to spacing?
Not necessarily. You are presuming that the action of manually setting a desired distance for key pairs means fixing how that distance is achieved in the eventual spacing/kerning. Again, I'm tal…1
