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Re: [OTVar] Introducing OpenType variable fonts
James M, I spun-off your interesting point about naming of arbitrary instances to a new thread: http://typedrawers.com/discussion/1765/otvar-naming-arbitrary-instances2 -
[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
Pieran, yes, the idea is that variable font design space will be addressable in CSS. Members of the Font Variations and W3C CSS working groups are in contact, and variable fonts are on the agenda for…1 -
Re: [OTVar] Introducing OpenType variable fonts
[Now going on vacation for 24 hours. Hopefully some of the other working group members start contributing here, although many of them are in Warsaw at the moment.]2 -
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 deltas …3
