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Developers of libre type tools. Tweets by @csimpkins

[Chris Simpkins @csimpkins]

COLRv1 and Rethinking Variations

https://t.co/udNRNcEsJV

[Cosimo Lupo @cosimolupo]

@justvanrossum That's super cool, Just! Here is Fontra running on a chromebook. Finally I don't always need to have a Mac at hand just to inspect some font sources :)

[Black[Foundry] @blackfoundry]

If you are adventurous, and setting up a Python virtual environment doesn’t scare you: please join us in our quest to create an awesome browser-based font editor!
https://t.co/drg3NDW2cx

[jhey ʕ•ᴥ•ʔ @jh3yy]

See the new color fonts on Google Fonts? 😍

Variable fonts that you can update with CSS ✨

This is "Nabla", a color font inspired by isometric computer games 🕹️

You can change depth, highlight, and even override the color palette 🎨

👉 https://t.co/Rjsn6are8B
👇 Demo link

[Bloomberg @business]

BREAKING: Adobe is nearing a deal to acquire Figma, a startup that makes online design collaboration tools, sources say https://t.co/plBrKsTfrM

[Khaled Hosny @KhaledGhetas]

Looks like Illustrator followed Photoshop made the switch to HarfBuzz, so only InDesign is left.

[Chris Simpkins @csimpkins]

f-actions/hyperglot v1.0.0

GitHub Action for font language support testing based on the @rosettatype Hyperglot executable and database

Simple to include in new and existing GitHub Actions build workflows.

Apache 2.0

https://t.co/ViobjRBJ0K #fonts #languages #i18n #l10n

[fontguy @mickduggan]

Published today, A guide to Hinting Complex Variable fonts in VTT, using Noto Serif Devanagari, as a case study. A big thank you @kalapi for your help and feedback. Feedback welcome : ) @davelab6 @csimpkins
https://t.co/agt0RCI3Ds

[Source Foundry @sourcefoundry]

@Moire9_ Unfortunately we can't because of the Bitstream License. We've tried

[Source Foundry @sourcefoundry]

@connordavenpo @simoncozens Tested on MBP 15” 2017 / macOS 12.3 with grep 2.6.0 vs. @rustlang ripgrep 13.0.0 against the google/fonts ofl directory catalog:

$ /usr/bin/time -p grep ‘fpgm’ */*.ttf
$ /usr/bin/time -p rg ‘fpgm’ */*.ttf

grep (real): 46.9 sec
ripgrep (real): 0.21 sec

[Source Foundry @sourcefoundry]

TIL

You can grep font binaries for table tag strings. Found this in an old TypeDrawers thread. Thanks @simoncozens!

[Source Foundry @sourcefoundry]

@connordavenpo @simoncozens Agree!

[fontguy @mickduggan]

Respecting the outlines
Notes on Hinting Variable fonts in Visual TrueType (VTT)
https://t.co/Kr8DdBUpU5

@davelab6 @csimpkins

[Peter Constable @[email protected] @pgconstable]

A step forward: Microsoft Edge has updated with Chromium 98, and now supports COLR v1.

[Chris Simpkins @csimpkins]

ufofmt (v0.7.1)

A fast, flexible UFO source file formatter based on the Rust Norad library

Minor fix, includes a number of dependency updates.

https://t.co/1lHRwQragz

[Chris Simpkins @csimpkins]

Avoiding Source Code Spoofing

https://t.co/09aEAxbhas

[Khaled Hosny @KhaledGhetas]

More color fonts 🚧🚧🚧