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A comment on Decovar – A multistyle decorative variable font.

Re:Decovar – A multistyle decorative variable font by dsr_ on Friday February 10, 2017 @06:55PM (#13619995)
That's pretty cool, but in order to use it on my desktop, do I need an all-new font widget that can control every aspect of the specification? Or do I fiddle on a webapp until I get the one that I want, download it and use it as normal... and now I have a thousand variants of Decovar that I have to squint at very carefully to differentiate?

I'm not complaining about choice, I just want to know if anybody has thought about usability.

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Re:Decovar – A multistyle decorative variable font by davelab6 on Friday February 10, 2017 @10:39PM (#13620844)
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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Re:Decovar – A multistyle decorative variable font by akita-ken on Friday February 10, 2017 @08:14PM (#13620351)
If you clone the repo (or download the .UFO files from the sources folder), you can find all the variations with different skeletons and terminals that you can play around with in an editor like RoboFont.
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