Weight Axis variable font

[pichotta]

@FAlthausen

Hi Friedrich,

Type Network has be commissioned by the the Google fonts team to resume with the production of a single axis variable fonts version of ‘Vollkorn'.

In order to achieve the highest quality and most efficient long term results we will be converting the source data from Glyphs to UFO. The new source data will be generated in the RoboFont environment using fontmake and ttfautohint. There have been recent hinting improvements with a new version of ttfautohint. There has also been progress on tools to make an easy path to move between the Glyphs and Robofont environment.

During the process we will be looking to improve any errors while preserving how the font appears and renders on different platforms.

We have started by making a fork off of this git repository. The upgrade will be completed for you in the near future. As mentioned previously on this repository, when the proposed final font is approved by Google we will initiate a pull request for your acceptance.

To confirm, are the .glyphs source files on this git repository the most current data? Vollkorn.glyphs VollkornItalic.glyphs

We hope this answers some of your questions about the process. Please let us know if you have any additional comments.

Best Regards,

Jill Pichotta Vice President Type Network [email protected]

[FAlthausen]

Dear Jill Pichotta, what you find in the repo is more or less the most current version. (I'd have all kinds of ideas to improve and expand it if GF is willing to pay …) I wonder what you'll do with it! Best regards, Friedrich