[NTG-context] Re: Fallbacks for design sizes in the current typescripts regime

[Hans Hagen <j.hagen@xs4all.nl>]

On 8/22/2023 10:53 PM, Vincent Hennebert wrote:
> On Tue, 2023-08-22 at 15:45 +0000, Hamid,Idris wrote:
>> On Aug 22, 2023, 2:06 AM -0600, Hans Hagen via ntg-context <ntg-
>> context@ntg.nl>, wrote:
>>> On 8/22/2023 6:31 AM, Hamid,Idris wrote:
>>> I'm not going to look into this until there is a complete test case
>>> for
>>> this which means:
>>>
>>> - free fonts (so that others can also test and use)
>>> - design sizes
>>> - fallback design sizes
>>
>> The reason there are so few free optical-size typefaces is that they
>> take a lot of work to get right. Indeed, really high-quality, fine-
>> tuned free typefaces are hard to find even at single size.
> 
> I don’t know about its quality, but Adobe makes the Source Serif font
> available under the SIL Open Font License, with 5 optical sizes and 6
> weights. I’m working on a typescript file that allows to use all those
> variants, would be happy to contribute it if that’s useful.

But aren't these basically some chosen values on variable axis? And i'm 
not sure if that works out well for all shapes is users choose their own 
values.

> https://github.com/adobe-fonts/source-serif
I suppose that you can play with the variable font and

   axis={wght=300}

(ok, using precooked variants that have the creators blessing makes 
sense of course and but then one can also argue that a variable font 
makes no sense apart from maybe showing off some technology)

Hans

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