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by davelab6 4y ago
I wonder if that position will change as the utility becomes widely adopted.
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by davelab6 4y ago
Google Fonts serves SVG-in-OpenType to legacy pre-COLRv1 browsers that support that older format, but you lose the variable fonts aspects.
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by davelab6 4y ago
That site is stale
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by davelab6 4y ago
You can DM @googlefonts or email fonts@google.com, as explained in the GF FAQ https://developers.google.com/fonts/faq#how_do_i_contact_goo...
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by davelab6 4y ago
I work on the Google Fonts team. https://developers.google.com/fonts/faq#what_does_using_the_... was updated today, confirming Google Fonts doesn't log IP addresses. Given that, it's unclear to me personally
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by davelab6 4y ago
The Google Fonts API serves different formats based on user agent. Woff2 is still the best, until Incremental Font Transfer arrives
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by davelab6 4y ago
It's Windows Firefox only
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by davelab6 4y ago
It's the nexus of visual culture, history, politics, linguistics, technology, business... as a visual artist, type has a purity of form that has a Zen quality. It's both completely ubiquitous and invisible.
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by davelab6 4y ago
The ramp isn't meant to be different weights. The left is the original Material Design 1 ramp that uses tracking and static font weight tweaks to try to approximate an even color. The right is an actual even color.
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by davelab6 4y ago
See thread @ https://twitter.com/googlefonts/status/1522778639305101312?t...
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by davelab6 4y ago
All designed by hand.
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by davelab6 8y ago
In deep typography circles, 'parametric fonts' means typefaces where their attributes are isolated and can be controlled as parameters. That can be done with OpenType Variable Fonts (eg Decovar and Amstelvar) but is not commonly d
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by davelab6 8y ago
Metafont has never found wide adoption, because to be a triple threat of typeface designer, mathematician, and software developer, you basically have to be a tenured stanford professor or their grad student to have enough time to learn ever
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by davelab6 9y ago
The www.glyphsapp.com and www.fontlab.com font editor apps have "smart components" which do this. Sadly the OpenType format is developed very conservatively by Microsoft so these aren't part of the only widely supported font
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by davelab6 9y ago
The css standard for "dynamically loaded, on demand" is Unicode Range.
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by davelab6 9y ago
Yes, Noto SC is available from fonts.google.com/earlyaccess
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Amstelvar – New sophisticated serif variable font (typenetwork.com)(typenetwork.com)
1 points by davelab6 10y ago|0 comments
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by davelab6 10y ago
That's a narrow definition of effective advertising. Consider https://www.google.com/search?q=equation+billboard+ad&tbm=is...
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by davelab6 10y ago
The fonts are made with freshly written extensions to the RoboFont editor; notably, the original source drawings are made in quadratic bezier splines, not the typical cubic ones. Metapolator (a project I co-founded) uses Hobby splines and h
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by davelab6 10y ago
I could see that being used in an advertisement where it taking a moment to figure out the text is intended
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by davelab6 10y ago
Yes, all applications now need an all-new font widget. The first program with such a widget is https://github.com/googlei18n/fontview
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Decovar – A multistyle decorative variable font(typenetwork.com)
64 points by davelab6 10y ago|19 comments
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Decovar, a new “variable” font that shows off the latest OpenType font format(typenetwork.com)
1 points by davelab6 10y ago|0 comments
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by davelab6 13y ago
Its part of the TrueType specification from Apple in 1987, which calls them 'components' - they are in all modern font editors.
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by davelab6 13y ago
Its not ;) But there is a js version on http://fontly.com/sandbox/spiro.html
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by davelab6 13y ago
need to be gpl for that ;)
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by davelab6 13y ago
$1,000 for a font? The average price is $20 and selling 50 copies is possible. Sometimes more, sometimes less.
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by davelab6 13y ago
Its probably a tangent point type. Change the point type :)
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by davelab6 13y ago
Google Fonts has only single style families on purpose, to prioritize a limited budget, so the most popular single style fonts can be improved into families with confidence there is demand for them. But expanding single styles into families
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by davelab6 13y ago
FontStruct is proprietary flash. Typism is dead, no one worked on it for ages. http://prototypo.io is new, active, libre, Angular, on github, but! it suffers from the classic problem of processing and such; designing visual thin

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