Flag appropriate axes as HIDDEN_AXIS

googlefonts / amstelvar

a parametric variable font by David Berlow

https://www.typenetwork.com/brochure/opentype-variable-fonts-moving-right-along/

SIL Open Font License 1.1

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Flag appropriate axes as HIDDEN_AXIS #29

Closed Lorp closed 7 years ago

Lorp commented 7 years ago

Now that the HIDDEN_AXIS flag is part of the spec, it would be great if Amstelvar flagged those axes it doesn’t intend users to play with.

Related: I’m adding code to Axis-Praxis to hide hidden axes by default.

Lorp commented 7 years ago

Update: support for hidden axes is now in Axis-Praxis.

See https://twitter.com/axis_praxis/status/918898929734955013

dberlow commented 7 years ago

Amstelvar requires no modification for this supported addition.

The definition of "user" makes it so that many current and future fonts will have a "maybe" with regards to hidden axes, depending on the user, if not utterly neutering the usefulness of this flag, then pretty close.

Lorp commented 7 years ago

Indeed everything’s currently grey as currently there are no apps with users or user interfaces to consider. With your talk of “figuring” around Amstelvar, I had assumed that some of its axes were not for human grappling.