Re: Variable fonts redux

Jerry Casiano <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.comp.fonts.fontconfig
Message-ID <CAGw1VoBATgd14RqZ7csrfxt+xUsCxe5RTPpFJsvQoHsOwmk6SQ@mail.gmail.com>
On Sep 18, 2017 3:01 PM, "Behdad Esfahbod" <[email protected]> wrote:

Yes and no.  Non-variable fonts and named-instances of variable fonts
continue to work as before.  Variable-font patterns will get weight and
width as ranges instead of double, and old clients will fail fetching
width/weight.


Nice.

I was afraid it would mean they just fail outright. But this is good. :-)



> Also, does this mean that a font such as Voto Serif GX will list 500
> different variations in a font selector dialog?
>

Yes.


Oh, not so good...

Doubt fonts with large amounts of variations are going to be popular with
users of that's the case.

However, for my use case I can see a workaround to this, I think.


Thanks!

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