Linefont should be marked as Symbols font

[tomasdev]

Type Tester at https://fonts.google.com/specimen/Linefont/tester shows the weights using the font and thus making it illegible.

[chrissimpkins]

@emmamarichal added in Q2

[tomasdev]

https://fonts.google.com/specimen/Wavefont/tester also has the same issue.

[chrissimpkins]

We reviewed other families like the Yarndings superfamily earlier today. It doesn't apply there because they are single weight instance families and have no weight menu dropdown in the front end UI.

The issue here is how we communicate that there are re-mapped Latin codepoints to designs that are not as specified in Unicode for multi-weight families. Discussed it with Tom today. It sounds like we need to develop a new approach.

[emmamarichal]

I read again the chat, and the solution would be to use the UI font to display the different weights, if I well understood. @garretrieger @rsheeter is it in progress, or is there something I can do here to fix that?

[tomasdev]

Hi Emma

This is in progress, nothing to do on the font side.

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[emmamarichal]

excellent, thanks!

[emmamarichal]

I'm not on it anymore, you can remove me and move it in Q3 @chrissimpkins