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Development of a Roboto Variable font
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Roboto Bold Condensed #27

Open dberlow opened 5 years ago

dberlow commented 5 years ago

I've fixed the most obvious, to me, characters and their relatives throughout the Roboto Bold Condensed style.

The definition of fixing is relative.

There are a number of issues related to: digitization, (as in there are not the right points to fix what's wrong), contour structure, (like the glyphs have overlaps that don't help with some problems), and the presence of pressure on width and weight, (Bold Condensed).

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We (above) have trouble in Classic at "Bold Condensed".

This does not include superiors, inferiors, some or other glyphs that are shrunken alpha-numerics in Y by more than around 50%, and any heavier than around 275/1000.

(FYI A limit is being passed in Roboto Classic, that has only width and weight axes. We address extending this limit, in Roboto Delta's contour structures and an optical size axis. And we exacerbate this situation in Roboto Extremo going really far in weight and width, and despite the help of better contours and optical size axis, into stylistic territory many of the glyphs in this font have not gone before.)