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                                            Laurence Penney

STAT: Composed names are sometimes including elided axis values

The square bracket (at the end of the elided name in your first message) indicates that your axis is not exactly on the nominal value of Roman. In these cases,...

Instantiator downloaded filename should be {FamilyName}-{InstanceName}

Good idea, though there are issues to solve when InstanceName is not a Named Instance or derived from STAT. I also wonder if it’s important to maintain a relationship with...

SamsaGlyph.prototype.svg has hardcoded width and height

Thanks for this! I’ve been meaning to improve the SVG sizing for a while. I’ll take a look soon and almost certainly accept your PR.

make SamsaGlyph.prototype.svg dynamically sized and responsive

I don’t think a viewBox based on font.unitsPerEm is the way to do it, because all glyphs are scaled by 1000/unitsPerEm by a group in the SVG. BTW the reason...

make SamsaGlyph.prototype.svg dynamically sized and responsive

The `svg()` method has an optional `style` argument. Try supplying `{transform: "scale(${1/font.unitsPerEm})"}`. This is how the web app calls the method. ``` SamsaGlyph.prototype.svg = function (style={}) { ... ```

Proofing a font's MVAR

Thanks for the issue. As well as visualization, MVAR processing is also needed for good exports of static instances.

Do you plan to release this on npm?

Someone else asked about this a while ago. It’ll happen.

Do you plan to release this on npm?

Hi @kontur, @rememberlenny: can you advise the best way to make this happen?

Exported static TTFs need better filename and name table entries

They would ideally have a good STAT table too, but that’s probably difficult if the VF doesn’t have STAT in the first place.

Exported static TTFs need better filename and name table entries

Fixed name table output in cd3b612ec2d9ef492d786ecdc046d778afd133b5. Filenames still not ideal.