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Re: Variable fonts, axes values
8-bit color is not sufficient. All you need is a gradient or a dark area and you will immediately start to see “stair step” artifacts. Also, 0–255 for each RGB component does fully cover 16.777.216 …2 -
Re: Type design hot takes
(T_T) is the face I make seeing this.4 -
Re: Variable fonts, axes values
Say OpenType did add a ‘stepSize’ parameter to variation axes. Then, a font vendor could specify that the weight axis should only be selectable at intervals of, say, 50: 300, 350, 400, 450, … The und…2 -
Re: Grawlixes
I always liked the skull ☠️ as it is much more impactful than, say, a percentage sign. It would be fun to have a separate grawlixes style or a grawlixes substitution feature so that the underlying te…1 -
Re: License for fonts that come with the operating system
I suspect the license of the preinstalled SF fonts is different. For example, SF is often used for the header and footer in printed documents by Mac apps (Apple’s apps and third-party).1
