Peter Constable
Peter Constable
>... will the upcoming Google colour font format... @mdtauk: What you're referring to isn't a Google specific format but is part of the [OpenType font formation specification](https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/typography/opentype/spec/colr), developed jointly by...
Interesting names! I’m assuming each of those represents some combination of values across all of the axes, not 18 names for points along just one axis? Assuming that’s the case…...
Dave: As John responded on that thread, you should talk to Behdad and Sascha on providing input from Google.
I took another look at the details of your named instances. Here’s what I see in Decovar’s ‘fvar’ table: [Deleting the details as they did not get interpreted within GitHub...
OK, I edited the comment in GitHub to make it readable.
More thinking about fonts like Decovar: When we designed the Font Variations extensions for OpenType 1.8, including the STAT table, we were primarily thinking about very-commonly-used axes of variations such...
Addendum... It turns out that what I stated earlier wasn't quite correct. What I described was what was relayed to me from a source that worked on the original GDI...
The long and short of it (sorry for the pun) is that what @simoncozens and @Pomax have been saying on this issue is correct. This is not about supporting characters...
CMYK representations may be somewhat problematic in that they depend on particular inks/pigments and so are device specific. I think CMYK values would need to be accompanied by some profile...