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Re: OTF Variable fonts
Variable fonts can be made using TrueType glyph data (glyf + gvar tables) or using a CFF2 table. The ".ttf" / ".otf" extension is orthogonal to this.2 -
Re: Color fonts nowadays
In case it's useful info: In an OpenType font, the COLR format relies on colour palettes defined in a CPAL table. The SVG format can make use of colour palettes defined in the CPAL table, or fix…3 -
Re: Thoughts on Monotype and its subsidiaries?
A few years back, one of the last major projects I drove while still working on text/fonts at Microsoft was to make it possible for fonts to be sold in the Microsoft online Store. Now, this was manda…6 -
Re: Can a newly designed script be owned/privatised/copyrighted?
This question is a bit similar to questions I've seen raised in other contexts: Should an ethnic community be able to limit knowledge of their language or ability to use it by people outside tha…2 -
Re: Variants: in 'salt' or in 'ss...'?
For general use of the name table,* then it doesn't allow for different entries for different scripts. However, it does allow for different entries for different languages. Having said that, the…1
