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✨🎉✨ Unicode Version 16.0 has been released! ✨🧨✨ Bringing the total number of characters to 154,998! ✨🍾✨ Find more information here → unicode.org/versions/Unicode… #Unicode16
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There are still some issues with sweep gradients, but yes, by and large FontGoggles now supports variable COLRv1. github.com/justvanrossum/fon…
Announcement: variable-gradients for #COLRv1 are now working, and I am so happy! 😭🎉 You can preview your exported font files with the new version of #fontgoggles by @justvanrossum
Peter Constable @[email protected] retweeted
I finally managed to watch @FreyaHolmer’s video about (the math behind) Bézier curves. It is truly fantastic, with great explanations and visualisations. Its 1M (!) views are well deserved.
youtube.com/watch?v=aVwxzDHn…
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my work in progress: variable, color font BroshK4
(for #COLRv1 format, I hope)
#variablefonts #colorfonts #typography
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The plan suggested in this article from Beijing doesn’t match at all with the Xinhua News Agency’s report from Ulaanbaatar. Everyone plz go read the latter (with Google Translate) & note how it’s still a 2025-onward bi-script plan (resume, not revert to): xinhuanet.com/world/2020-03/…
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My talk from JSConf Hawaii is out, along with a bunch of other wonderful talks. If you're looking for something to do, go take a look! ☺️
▶️All of JSConfHI 2020 Day One is now UP on YouTube! ✨🌴🌞🌊 Enjoy new talks from @sambego @ohhoe @olearycrew @Mandy_Kerr @techevangelista and @ericastanley on topics ranging from encryption, variable fonts, accessibility, inclusivity, and remote work!
youtube.com/playlist?list=PL…
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✨🍾✨ #Unicode13 has been released! ✨🎉✨ Bringing the total number of characters to 143,859! ✨🥳✨ More information can be found here → unicode.org/versions/Unicode…
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Variable Fonts give you all of the font styles with less of the download weight, cross-browser.
What do they give you? bit.ly/vf-what
How do they improve WebPerf? bit.ly/vf-webperf
Do @GoogleFonts support them? Yes!
h/t @jpamental @Mandy_Kerr and more.
Variable Fonts
With Variable Fonts you can use as many variations of a font as you like without slowing down your site
Peter Constable @[email protected] retweeted
Why don’t we just coin a word “orthoakshar“ for referring to that script behavior/grammar/validity/… concept? 👹
“Arguably, although केु is not orthographically meaningful in the Hindi–Devanagari writing system, it is an orthoaksharically valid Devanagari structure.”
Peter Constable @[email protected] retweeted
“Knights of the Round Table” at Wednesday’s #UTC156 dinner (counter-clockwise from 🕕: Michel Suignard, @mark_e_davis, Jiali,Sheng, @sei_berkeley, @roozbehp, yours truly, @iwsfutcmd, his better half [fiancée] & Asmus Freytag) — photo by @@pgconstable
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new on Fontblog, some notes on the GASP table. blogs.msdn.microsoft.com/fon…
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Big news from @MicrosoftEdge: it ships with support for #variablefonts in the Windows 10 April 2018 update. (Also great that they use an embedded @CodePen as a demo.)
blogs.windows.com/msedgedev/…
Peter Constable @[email protected] retweeted
The new process for proposing and reviewing new OT variation axes went live this morning:
typedrawers.com/discussion/2…
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NEW BLOG POST: Axis-Praxis receives birthday greetings! 🎂 Thanks to all who sent a review 😀
axis-praxis.org/blog/2017-11…
Peter Constable @[email protected] retweeted
How to assemble real working @variablefonts in @Fontlab VI Public Preview, today: vimeo.com/240741883
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If you’re interested, I ran a few file size comparison tests between Gimlet’s variable fonts and its static ones: stuff.djr.com/gimlet-vf-size…
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Variable font news everywhere! Big shout-out to friends at Apple, Google, Microsoft. #Variablefonts, @behdadesfahbod, @pgconstable @nedley
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An Italic eyeball for visualizing prepositions in Casey's grammar (1819). @DesignMuseum #FontSunday
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