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Instances tab: List named styles from STAT table

Open davelab6 opened this issue 3 years ago • 0 comments

At the moment, the Instances tab lists the fvar named styles:

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Samsa Inspector UI shows these in the 'Instances' panel.

However, Samsa also supports the STAT table, which has more sophisticated ways to provide named styles, including per-axis names that get combined. The Samsa Inspector UI is an early consumer of STAT named styles, in the STAT panel. While this UI is a bit overly nerdy, I think it is entirely appropriate for an inspector. This plugin can simplify a bit.

The Recursive font is a good example, that shows how 2 axes (slant and cursive) are combined in a single STAT table dropdown:

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davelab6 avatar Apr 09 '21 18:04 davelab6