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Barlow: a straight-sided sans-serif superfamily
https://tribby.com/fonts/barlow
SIL Open Font License 1.1
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compatible with pyftsubset? #60

Open leeoniya opened 4 years ago

leeoniya commented 4 years ago

hi @jpt ,

i'm trying to achieve a woff2 variable font similar to here [1], but with the updated Barlow version.

after downloading the zip file from https://tribby.com/fonts/barlow, i run

pyftsubset BarlowGX.ttf --unicodes="U+0020-007E,U+00A9,U+00B2,U+00AE,U+2122" --flavor="woff2" --output-file="BarlowGX.woff2"

which is how i subsetted Oswald-VF:

https://github.com/googlefonts/OswaldFont/blob/master/fonts/ttf/Oswald-VF.ttf

however, with Barlow the results are odd:

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any advice would be helpful, thanks!

[1] https://v-fonts.com/fonts/barlow

leeoniya commented 4 years ago

loading the unmodified BarlowGX.ttf into this playground also shows the lowercase "o" issue:

https://typetools.typenetwork.com/

jpt commented 2 years ago

There is a script that needs to be run to fill in the designspace before the VF can be exported. But the VF needs an update RE VF mastering generally, avar table etc and I will address this in a separate issue. Thanks for reporting.