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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 -
Re: Variable fonts, axes values
This is the design space of one of my current projects. The nature of the design and of the variations mean I am able to avoid any intermediate or corner masters, so almost the entirety of the three-…3 -
Re: Variable fonts, axes values
Absolutely! And her 2018 Alphabettes article is still one of the freshest pieces of thinking about possible ways to present multi-axis design spaces to users. The spider’s web visualisation is a grea…3 -
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
