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oliverlalan / Doto

A bitmap inspired, open-source, variable, monospace, geometric typeface family.
SIL Open Font License 1.1
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COLRv1 panels? #1

Open davelab6 opened 2 months ago

davelab6 commented 2 months ago

You may be interested in @simoncozens 's https://github.com/simoncozens/fontpainter to make it possible to color the panels :)

oliverlalan commented 2 months ago

@davelab6 I read about COLRv1 while creating the font and was seriously considering supporting it, but this was my first contact with font creation, and didn't want to make my life more complicated than necessary 😂

If I have time to work on major upgrades, I will definitely do it in that direction, I think this kind of font asks for color support given its nature.

One question regarding the Google Axis Registry. I think it would be nice to add support for some kind of binary axis that, in abstract terms, enables particular features of a font. I have looked through the Registry and didn't find any apart from "italics". Is the team open to add new axes? If so, where should I propose it?

davelab6 commented 2 months ago

No worries - this is something that could be a collaboration, but basically Simon's tool works on the binary TTF file and adds COLRv1 "paints" directly, so it won't effect your existing workflow but is just an add-on.

You can propose axis ideas via a new issue on that repo - but generally OpenType features like stylistic sets offer such "binary toggle" glyph customizations. You can see in recursive.design how that family uses an axis as a binary toggle in conjunction with OpenType Features. We won't register an axis until we have a font that uses it.