Re: Variable fonts redux
Jerry Casiano <[email protected]>
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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! _______________________________________________ Fontconfig mailing list [email protected] https://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/fontconfig