Re: (No subject header)

[Hans Hagen via ntg-context <ntg-context@ntg.nl>]

On 12/27/2021 9:27 PM, Thomas Savary via ntg-context wrote:
> Thanks, Hans, for your advice.
> 
>  > a probably more reliable solution is to 'remove bad stuff' from the
>  > loaded font by running over the features and removing bad matches
>  > (which is less sensitive for order)
> 
> I could edit the font features, indeed, but I run a GNU/Linux OS, and 
> Fontforge cannot edit nor generate variable fonts. There seems to be a 
> solution (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xoQuWARCUWI 
> <https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xoQuWARCUWI> ), but so far beyond my 
> technical capabilities that I cannot consider it.
> 
>  > is that really a google font? afaik it doesn't originate there (unless
>  > it among those things that google grabs - and at some point possible
>  > discards)
> 
> Yes, it is, but not from the beginning. A great Garamond, the original 
> font was designed by Georg Duffner. A few years ago, Google decided to 
> make it a more complete font family : Octavio Pardo has done an 
> excellent job with the bolder versions of EB Garamond and its conversion 
> to a variable font. However, for whatever reasons, he did quite a rush 
> job with the OpenType features ! Many essential features are lacking 
> (despite the needed glyphs still being there), and most present features 
> are poorly implemented, with a lot of typographic nonsense (concerning 
> long s and long Q or the mentioned italic ligatures, for instance).

Strange, so basically only the shapes were taken an not the (in this 
case closely related features)?
> https://fonts.google.com/specimen/EB+Garamond 
> <https://fonts.google.com/specimen/EB+Garamond>
> 
> I will contact Google Fonts shortly to report on the dozens of problems 
> I have encountered that make the unfixed new version of EB Garamond 
> unusable for anything but the most basic uses.
> 
> Fortunately, my significantly more demanding needs for a client were met 
> with the invaluable help from LuaTeX, but that won't be enough for my 
> own projects, much more complex (facsimile of ancient editions), until 
> Google improves this font.
So actually the old pre-google fonts from GD are better? Hopefully they 
then stay available someplace.

Hans



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