Re: Looks Like Multiple Masters Is A Dead Technology

Lawrence D'Oliveiro <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.comp.lib.cairo
Organization Geek Central
Message-ID <[email protected]>
On Thu, 10 Dec 2015 11:15:36 +0100, Behdad Esfahbod wrote:

> On 15-12-09 10:24 PM, Lawrence D'Oliveiro wrote:
>
>> Is anybody still making TrueType GX fonts? I thought that was even
>> less successful than Multiple Masters.  
> 
> It's been making a come-back this year:
> 
>   https://github.com/behdad/fonttools/blob/master/Snippets/interpolate.py
> 
>   https://goo.gl/J1O2OX

Well, that looks like fun. :)

I have my doubts, though. While font-design tools are acquiring all
kinds of parametric, even scripting, capability, it seems like
parametric type rendering has not been very popular 
<https://www.typotheque.com/articles/typeface_as_programme_peter_bilak>.
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