Source Foundry

COLRv1 and Rethinking Variations simoncozens.github.io/colrv1-rocks/

@justvanrossum That's super cool, Just! Here is Fontra running on a chromebook. Finally I don't always need to have a Mac at hand just to inspect some font sources :)

If you are adventurous, and setting up a Python virtual environment doesn’t scare you: please join us in our quest to create an awesome browser-based font editor! fontra.xyz

See the new color fonts on Google Fonts? 😍 Variable fonts that you can update with CSS ✨ This is "Nabla", a color font inspired by isometric computer games 🕹️ You can change depth, highlight, and even override the color palette 🎨 👉 material.io/blog/color-fon… 👇 Demo link

BREAKING: Adobe is nearing a deal to acquire Figma, a startup that makes online design collaboration tools, sources say trib.al/u7hC3Sn

Looks like Illustrator followed Photoshop made the switch to HarfBuzz, so only InDesign is left.

f-actions/hyperglot v1.0.0 GitHub Action for font language support testing based on the @rosettatype Hyperglot executable and database Simple to include in new and existing GitHub Actions build workflows. Apache 2.0 github.com/marketplace/ac… #fonts #languages #i18n #l10n

Published today, A guide to Hinting Complex Variable fonts in VTT, using Noto Serif Devanagari, as a case study. A big thank you @kalapi for your help and feedback. Feedback welcome : ) @davelab6 @csimpkins googlefonts.github.io/how-to-hint-co…

@Moire9_ Unfortunately we can't because of the Bitstream License. We've tried

@connordavenpo @simoncozens Tested on MBP 15” 2017 / macOS 12.3 with grep 2.6.0 vs. @rustlang ripgrep 13.0.0 against the google/fonts ofl directory catalog: $ /usr/bin/time -p grep ‘fpgm’ */*.ttf $ /usr/bin/time -p rg ‘fpgm’ */*.ttf grep (real): 46.9 sec ripgrep (real): 0.21 sec

@connordavenpo @simoncozens Agree!

TIL You can grep font binaries for table tag strings. Found this in an old TypeDrawers thread. Thanks @simoncozens!

Respecting the outlines Notes on Hinting Variable fonts in Visual TrueType (VTT) github.com/googlefonts/ho… @davelab6 @csimpkins

A step forward: Microsoft Edge has updated with Chromium 98, and now supports COLR v1.

ufofmt (v0.7.1) A fast, flexible UFO source file formatter based on the Rust Norad library Minor fix, includes a number of dependency updates. github.com/source-foundry…

Avoiding Source Code Spoofing unicode.org/L2/L2022/22007…

More color fonts 🚧🚧🚧