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octaviopardo / EBGaramond12

SIL Open Font License 1.1
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Implement optical size #16

Open KrasnayaPloshchad opened 7 years ago

KrasnayaPloshchad commented 7 years ago

With this variant the font can switch proper shape for proper size, and you can try to merge EB Garamond 12 and 08 into single font. There are two ways for this: adding size feature or intergrete OpenType font variation.

KrasnayaPloshchad commented 6 years ago

If you want to intergrete OpenType font variation, you can try to add opsz axis.

dpk commented 5 years ago

It would be very cool to have this feature! Especially since Georg already designed the 8pt masters, and intended to make versions up to 40pt, it would be excellent (and I’m guessing somewhat easier to design) to have smooth scaling from 8pt up to 40pt instead of just a stepwise optical sizing of 6pt/8pt/10pt/12pt/18pt/40pt.

dpk commented 5 years ago

Perhaps @davelab6 or someone else from @googlefonts could tell us if Google would be willing to fund such work … since OpenType variable fonts were developed on Google's initiative, it would make sense for them to have a font which shows off the features, I think? 😉

davelab6 commented 5 years ago

It's a good idea but I can't promise anything

dpk commented 5 years ago

Looking forward to hearing more, and hoping that this will happen! 🤞

KrasnayaPloshchad commented 5 years ago

It's a good idea but I can't promise anything

This can be tested via hb-view utility if you want to see the actual output.

KrasnayaPloshchad commented 4 years ago

The support of OT font variation are limited, some softwares such as Adobe CC, Inkscape allows to adjust the axis, while GIMP, LibreOffice doesn’t have any support for this, so I suggest add size feature and opsz axis simultaneously.