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Re:What you can get out of a high-quality font by sdwrj on Tuesday September 10, 2024 @01:26PM (#41503276)
Crazy how most fonts don't support any of this... (update: oops, I'm wrong!)
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Re:What you can get out of a high-quality font by Gualdrapo on Tuesday September 10, 2024 @02:00PM (#41503683)
Because not all typefaces are OpenType, and not all OpenType typefaces have features set.
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Re:What you can get out of a high-quality font by TheRealPomax on Tuesday September 10, 2024 @01:42PM (#41503455)
Almost all fonts commonly used today support most if not all of this (except for variable axes, because that's still a relatively new development)
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Re:What you can get out of a high-quality font by WillAdams on Tuesday September 10, 2024 @02:20PM (#41503924)
Variable Axes have been around since Adobe Multiple Masters in the mid to early 90s:

https://web.archive.org/web/20091223045132/http://partners.a...

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Re:What you can get out of a high-quality font by TheRealPomax on Tuesday September 10, 2024 @04:19PM (#41505074)
But the "fvar" table [1], as part of the OpenType specification, has not.

[1] https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/typography/opentype/spec/f...

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