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"2025Q1 Fonts Quarterly" is out: what I worked on in font technology (mostly HarfBuzz) land this past quarter:

docs.google.com/document/d/1RU…

cc @harfbuzz @FontTools

I posted some notes about what we have been doing this quarter re font technology at behdad.org/fonts2024q4 #opentype @harfbuzz @FontTools

FontTools 4.52.x is out with lots of interesting CFF goodies:

- Partial and static instancing of CFF2 variable fonts.
- Two new modules and command-lines: cffLib.CFFToCFF2 and cffLib.CFF2ToCFF for conversions between CFF and CFF2.

Check it out:

github.com/fonttools/font…

New @fonttools 4.45.0 is a `pip install --upgrade fonttools` away from you!

It contains my work on generating PDF/HTML from the `varLib.interpolatable` tool.

Check out the sample output:

github.com/behdad/google-…