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Development of a Roboto Variable font
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Step 1 Hinting Roboto.vf #32

Open dberlow opened 4 years ago

dberlow commented 4 years ago

DC,

There are two versions of the Roboto (Classic) variable fonts. Roboto-min-VF.ttf is the smaller file, containing the default, thin and black of regular and italic Roboto-VF.ttf is a larger to contain the legacy instances, either as a master or an intermediate.

Right now, ttfautohint only runs on the smaller file, on the (Roboto-min-VF.ttf), and stops without a message on Roboto-VF.ttf containing intermediates.

CJ has spoken with Mark and been told there is a new build coming.

I assume, for maximum compatibility, you'd want Roboto-VF.ttf containing the exact intermediates, hinted — but please confirm, which of the two files has been deemed not well enough-instructed, compared to the legacy Roboto?

Last: Until the next build of ttfautohint, we have run the current ttfautohint to produce Roboto-min-VF_hinted.ttf and proofs from Android and windows are being made.

dberlow commented 4 years ago

A slideshow presenting the hinted results: https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/19Ll9yhvgguiNdWKGh7NJNnhP6AgajCBC7MhurHu-AbQ/edit?usp=sharing

dberlow commented 4 years ago

CJ,

I was told that this was being hinted with the latest version of Ttfautohint.

Dave is saying that it’s an old version that was used.

Please, clarify.

Thanks.

m4rc1e commented 4 years ago

@dberlow The person working on ttfautohint for vfs has made many improvements to it since I last built it. I haven't had the time to build his newest version yet.

cjdunn commented 4 years ago

@dberlow It was made using the latest build from @m4rc1e but there are apparently new improvements being made, which haven't been built into a new binary yet

dberlow commented 4 years ago

Thanks for clarifying.

As I understand it with CJ, he’ll let me know when there is a new build for our use in rehinting Roboto-min, which is the one Dave has indicated as the target.

In the mean time, that “min” vf we hinted with the current version of ttfautohint is available.

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davelab6 commented 4 years ago

@cjdunn were you able to build https://gitlab.com/ewaldhew/tah-vf from source?

cjdunn commented 4 years ago

@davelab6 I've never built ttfautohint-vf from source before. Marc said he'd be building it so I have focused on other priorities. I previously emailed Ewald about the process and told me the steps he uses, but also recommended that I wait for Marc's build because he couldn't guarantee the steps he uses would work on my machine