I finally tried out v5 of the Designspace spec, which allows separate but related fonts (e.g. Roman and Italic) to be set up in one file, along with labels for instance style attributes… and it’s amazing!
FontMake built it beautifully, including both fonts with stat tables. 🎉
FontMake built it beautifully, including both fonts with stat tables. 🎉
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Upgrading was easier than expected, and worked flawlessly (in my case, at least).
I’ll probably make a video about this soon!
I’ll probably make a video about this soon!
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This tool is a super handy way to interact with designspaces when a UI is helpful. I still use it to start out new designspaces, and then I move into code for faster edits. Stoked to see there is a v2.0 in the works!
@ArrowType make sure to try out the new DesignspaceEditor: github.com/LettError/desi…
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Another awesome thing that just dropped in FontTools: the Level 4 Instancer, which can add a new default location to a variable font!
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I’m really excited that FontTools can now set the default of a variable font axis without needing a whole separate source for this, so I wrote a quick script to test it out.
It’s simple, and works really well!
gist.github.com/arrowtype/9fef…
Nov 1, 2022 · 7:12 PM UTC
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