googlefonts / science-gothic

Science Gothic, a libre variable font
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Restore master to PostScript curves #279

Closed kateliev closed 9 months ago

kateliev commented 2 years ago

I do not know how, when and why this happened, but the current source is in TrueType (TT) curve format. I have a hunch that it is a purposely made decision, but cannot seem to find any written record of it?

Nevertheless i strongly believe that we should keep the source in PostScript (PS). Otherwise it will be hard for us and those after us to maintain the project.

Working in PS would be far more easier for us the designers to do our job, also the tools that we are using are fine tuned to work with PS curves - for example we cannot use a third of the tools provided by TypeRig (TR) and our TR based tools. Also i believe we have drawing guidelines and tool presets based on PS design like handle length on rounded corners and etc.. that are now inapplicable to the current TT curves...

@tphinney i have already forked the current repository and took the appropriate actions to build us a PS based master file. Unless we find a source file with PS laying around somewhere - i surely do not have one... This will require the following steps:

As most of these were a font metadata fixes, i have transferred all current metadata to the font i am using, but am leaving it to @tphinney to verify that (and checkboxes to check)

tphinney commented 2 years ago

Some of the font metadata still needed fixing. All done now, will check in VFC source v1.003