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linebender / norad

Rust crate for working with Unified Font Object files
Apache License 2.0
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Use font-types in norad? #276

Closed rsheeter closed 1 year ago

rsheeter commented 1 year ago

From https://github.com/linebender/norad/pull/272#discussion_r1020591640.

+1 from me, only concern is I think we want any font-types dependence on serde to be optional.

cmyr commented 1 year ago

I looked into this quickly and it's not totally obvious that there are many places this would make sense. The obvious one is the Tag type in designspaces, and maybe the various table-specific fields on fontinfo.plist; the problem with this second case is that while these do map to specific values in the tables, the UFO spec often specifies them in different formats; for instance the openTypeHeadCreated field is a string, not a LongDateTime.

madig commented 1 year ago

I think UFO is using more general types on purpose, because the original goal was to encompass more than OpenType.

cmyr commented 1 year ago

That's a very reasonable goal I think.