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

[Vincent Hennebert <vhennebert@gmail.com>]

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.

https://github.com/adobe-fonts/source-serif


Vincent
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