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Upgrade Roboto to VF format #6099

Open chrissimpkins opened 1 year ago

chrissimpkins commented 1 year ago

Font Project Git Repo URL:

https://github.com/googlefonts/roboto-classic

Current version:

New available version:

Super short description of the upgrade: (expand style, expand glyphset, improve rendering, bug fix…)

Bugs reported in this repo which this upgrade would fix: Search in the issue tracker if there is some opened issues containing the font name.

m4rc1e commented 1 year ago

I reran the CI this week and the diffenator2 results can be found here, https://github.com/google/fonts/actions/runs/4489497523

My slide deck from a few years ago which displays the regressions against the v2 static fonts is still relevant, https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1DwwQkUA_zDNMv05FhgF70wcyDsRgubwH1mPELBBiJrY/edit#slide=id.p

The new diffenator2 results are enlightening. Imo, the italic horizontal metric differences are quite significant. Everything else is fairly minor in comparison.

diffbrowsers_text-macOS-12 6 3-x86_64-i386-64bit_firefox_84 0

Win Chrome

cc @chrissimpkins. We can discuss this more once I'm back.

m4rc1e commented 6 months ago

Family is currently in the to_prod list.