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carlstype / techna-sans

Sharp, geometric typeface
https://crl.io
SIL Open Font License 1.1
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Stroke contrast should be higher to increase legibility #4

Closed carlenlund closed 5 years ago

carlenlund commented 5 years ago

This would make the typeface work better with bigger blocks of text, besides being suited for display use. Though there's a risk that this clashes with the "charm" of the current, low contrast.

rellikmil commented 5 years ago

Offtop: do you know how to make color fonts at FontForge?

carlenlund commented 5 years ago

@den32ds great question. It looks like the first step is separating the glyphs into multiple layers, one for each color. But other than that I'm not sure. I found this article by Mozilla, but it's aimed mainly at the Robofont editor.

rellikmil commented 5 years ago

@carlenlund thanks for information. Sad is the fact that in proprietary Glyphs and Fontlab this function exists, but not in FontForge.

carlenlund commented 5 years ago

Having thought about this for a while, I think the contrast is okay as it is. Closing this issue for now.