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Re: Are customers buying or using variable fonts?
I got that. I just don’t see how fvar is broken, fundamentally broken, in this respect. The discussion, after Thomas’ post, was about what to show as default. Named instances came up, in this context…0 -
Re: Are customers buying or using variable fonts?
Define fundamentally broken. In fvar there is sfntVariationAxis which has defaultValue. fvar is beautiful. STAT not so much.0 -
Re: On vertical metrics (in the context of a biscript, Tamil and Latin font)
I am sorry to say, John, you do not get it. 1) Line spacing is rarely defined entirely automatically, instead is based on styles defined by humans. No need for such data in fonts. 2) For fallback – b…0 -
Re: On vertical metrics (in the context of a biscript, Tamil and Latin font)
Painted glyphs – in final positions. There is no way around that. Precisely because scripts other than Latin do not share similarly even glyph heights. Forget about Latin centered layout practices. I…0 -
Re: On vertical metrics (in the context of a biscript, Tamil and Latin font)
Happy I did not respond immediately, wanting to say just that, using way more words. Let me suggest that we look at it from the application side instead of from the font side. Do applications need fo…0
