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OpenType 1.9.1 alpha
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…1 -
Re: Tamil Troubles
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…2 -
Re: Variable fonts, axes values
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…1 -
Re: Variable fonts, axes values
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 …2 -
Re: .fon fonts in WIndows 10
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…2
