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Noto Tamil
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Android UI VF Issues #14

Closed simoncozens closed 1 year ago

simoncozens commented 1 year ago

Android requires a "UI build" of Noto Sans Tamil, delivered as a slim variable font. We can't currently build the UI VFs from the Glyphs sources directly - the UI styles is defined as a set of instances with various magical custom parameters to re-encode glyphs, replace features, and transform the glyph outlines. We do have a way to hotfix the ordinary VF into the UI VF, but it's a horrible (and manual) process.

The process needs to become more robust, automated, and tested. Current issues on the previous build:

  1. Name tables need updating
  2. I ran the hotfixer on the full-range VF instead of the slim VF.
simoncozens commented 1 year ago

Development CI build: https://notofonts.github.io/tamil/fonts/NotoSansTamil/full/slim-variable-ttf/NotoSansTamil-UI-VF.ttf

chrissimpkins commented 1 year ago

Fixed. Thank you very much Simon