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Re: License for fonts that come with the operating system
Clarifying an aspect of what John said: OS licenses are generally liberal regarding use of the fonts bundled with the OS... but only in the context of that OS. It's not clear what is meant by "u…2 -
Re: Why don't we hear about more use of variable fonts on the Web?
The presentation of information on that page is... interesting—as in, not clear. There are bars (equivalent to pie charts) for 2019, 2020 and 2021, but the "Never heard of it" bar gets lon…1 -
Re: OpenType 1.9 released
Similarity of size between COLRv1 and OT-SVG with WOFF compression will depend a lot on the nature of the colour glyphs and on the compiler used. Google has worked a lot on the picosvg tool and the n…2 -
Re: Fontlab 7 - Windows reads exported font name differently
The majority of users shouldn't need to understand implementation details and the technologies involved. We should expect the majority of users to be able to use fonts successfully with the fewest co…2 -
OpenType 1.9 released
I'm happy to be able to announce that OpenType 1.9 has been published. The biggest change is the introduction of a second version of the COLR table. Support is already enabled in Chrome Canary builds…8
