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The package of IBM’s typeface, IBM Plex.
SIL Open Font License 1.1
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Add Italic to IBM Plex Sans Thai and IBM Plex Sans Thai Looped #417

Closed karn18 closed 2 years ago

karn18 commented 2 years ago

It would be great if you add italic to both fonts

BoldMonday commented 2 years ago

The concept of an italic style — as companion to a Roman upright style — is alien to many of the scripts that IBM Plex is supporting: Hebrew, Arabic, Devanagari, Hangul, Japanese, and Thai. It was a conscious decision by the IBM Plex team not to enforce Latin-centric principles to scripts where they do not belong to. Therefore all the aforementioned scripts do not have an italic style in Plex.

Italic is in essence a style that belongs to the Latin script (and for some of its offsprings such as Cyrillic). I am very curious why such a style would be desirable to add to Thai.