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Rajdhani, a Devanagari + Latin family for Google Fonts.
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Weight Axis variable font #5

Closed pichotta closed 3 years ago

pichotta commented 4 years ago

@lianghai

Hi Liang,

We have made a fork off of this Rajdhani repo and are using the latest .ufo data here to make a weight variable font. Please let me know if you have any comments or information.

Best,

Jill

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The Google fonts team would love to see a variable fonts version of ‘Rajdhani'. They have commissioned us @TypeNetwork to work on upgrading a number of font projects to be variable fonts with a single weight axis. The Hind family is one of several fonts from the Indian Type Foundry.

In order to achieve the highest quality and most efficient long term results, we will be converting any original source data to UFO, if they are not UFOs already. The source data will be generated in the RoboFont environment using fontmake and ttfautohint. There has been progress on tools to make an easy path to move between the Glyphs and Robofont environment.

During the process, we will be looking to improve any errors while preserving how the font appears and renders on different platforms.

It looks that the outlines in the UFO sources in this family are currently approximately 84% compatible.

We will start by making a fork off of this git repository. It is estimated that the upgrade will be completed for you in the next few months. When the proposed final font is approved by Google they will accept a pull request.

We hope this answers some of your questions about the process. Please let us know if you have any additional comments.

Best Regards,

Jill Pichotta Vice President Type Network pichotta@typenetwork.com

pichotta commented 3 years ago

The work on the weight axis variable font for Rajdhani has been paused.