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I wonder if that position will change as the utility becomes widely adopted.

Google Fonts serves SVG-in-OpenType to legacy pre-COLRv1 browsers that support that older format, but you lose the variable fonts aspects.

That site is stale

You can DM @googlefonts or email [email protected], as explained in the GF FAQ

https://developers.google.com/fonts/faq#how_do_i_contact_goo...

I work on the Google Fonts team.

https://developers.google.com/fonts/faq#what_does_using_the_... was updated today, confirming Google Fonts doesn't log IP addresses.

Given that, it's unclear to me personally what the difference is between Bunny Fonts and Google Fonts.

The Google Fonts API serves different formats based on user agent. Woff2 is still the best, until Incremental Font Transfer arrives

It's Windows Firefox only

It's the nexus of visual culture, history, politics, linguistics, technology, business... as a visual artist, type has a purity of form that has a Zen quality.

It's both completely ubiquitous and invisible.

The ramp isn't meant to be different weights. The left is the original Material Design 1 ramp that uses tracking and static font weight tweaks to try to approximate an even color. The right is an actual even color.

See thread @ https://twitter.com/googlefonts/status/1522778639305101312?t...

All designed by hand.

In deep typography circles, 'parametric fonts' means typefaces where their attributes are isolated and can be controlled as parameters.

That can be done with OpenType Variable Fonts (eg Decovar and Amstelvar) but is not commonly done with them (eg OTvar fonts with just Weight and Width axes)

Its more common that parametric fonts are made with 'generative font' formats, like metafont and www.Prototypo.io, where there is a turing complete programming language that controls and generates the letter shapes.

Metafont has never found wide adoption, because to be a triple threat of typeface designer, mathematician, and software developer, you basically have to be a tenured stanford professor or their grad student to have enough time to learn everything well enough to make useful type.

And even then, the typefaces made with metafont are often very poor designs compared to those draw in a GUI in a 'dumbfont' format.

Adobe Multiple Master, then TrueType GX, and now OpenType Variations, are a 'best of both worlds' compromise; the drawing quality of visually crafted outlines, and the continuous-space-type-family-in-1-file typographic flexibility of metafont.

The www.glyphsapp.com and www.fontlab.com font editor apps have "smart components" which do this. Sadly the OpenType format is developed very conservatively by Microsoft so these aren't part of the only widely supported font format today, despite recent additions to the format of run time interpolation technology.

The css standard for "dynamically loaded, on demand" is Unicode Range.

Yes, Noto SC is available from fonts.google.com/earlyaccess

That's a narrow definition of effective advertising. Consider https://www.google.com/search?q=equation+billboard+ad&tbm=is...

The fonts are made with freshly written extensions to the RoboFont editor; notably, the original source drawings are made in quadratic bezier splines, not the typical cubic ones.

Metapolator (a project I co-founded) uses Hobby splines and has not been used so far to develop Variable Fonts AFAIK.

I filed an issue for your nice suggestion, https://github.com/TypeNetwork/fb-Decovar/issues/6

I could see that being used in an advertisement where it taking a moment to figure out the text is intended

Yes, all applications now need an all-new font widget. The first program with such a widget is https://github.com/googlei18n/fontview

Its part of the TrueType specification from Apple in 1987, which calls them 'components' - they are in all modern font editors.

Its not ;)

But there is a js version on http://fontly.com/sandbox/spiro.html

need to be gpl for that ;)

$1,000 for a font? The average price is $20 and selling 50 copies is possible. Sometimes more, sometimes less.

Its probably a tangent point type. Change the point type :)

Google Fonts has only single style families on purpose, to prioritize a limited budget, so the most popular single style fonts can be improved into families with confidence there is demand for them.

But expanding single styles into families is not as easy as it should be. That's why I help start http://metapolator.com which takes www.metaflop.com and removes the 'write metafont code' part of the process.

As you say, if you want the fonts to be better sooner than Google, you can pay for it - either by commissioning the designer to improve the open source fonts or by going across the street to a paid web font service.

FontStruct is proprietary flash.

Typism is dead, no one worked on it for ages.

http://prototypo.io is new, active, libre, Angular, on github, but! it suffers from the classic problem of processing and such; designing visual things isnt best done by writing code. Its why metafont didnt catch on - https://www.google.co.in/search?q=why+metafont+didnt+catch+o...

That's why I help start http://metapolator.com which will become a much more powerful online font editor, because it allows you to design typeface families instead of letters.