Work has started on OpenType 1.9.1. This will be a relatively minor revision, though there will be one significant technical change: The COLR v1 spec for sweep gradients will be revised to simplify t… (View Post)
Tamil script requires an OpenType Layout shaping engine, and the implementation may have a Tamil- or Indic-specific engine. It's possible that the shaping engine for Tamil doesn't support discretiona… (View Post)
I think that would be a bad idea for a few reasons. First, it hinders the advanced user who doesn't want to be constrained to those 30 variants. But more importantly, it obscures what is actually sel… (View Post)
Maria initially described her concern as variable fonts providing too-fine distinctions most of which are, in practice, not useful distinctions. But I think it's would be better to characterize that … (View Post)
There are around 190 .fon files that ship with windows, but they include DPI and code page variants. So, only a handful of them get loaded into GDI. Also, are not used by DWrite. These are not slowin… (View Post)