Behdad Esfahbod

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icon location Canada icon location Behdad Esfahbod is an Iranian-Canadian Software Engineer prominently known for his work on Open Source projects, including HarfBuzz & FontTools.

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[`GDEF` / `GSUB`/`GPOS`] Glyph Filtering

> Allowing glyph classes >4 in the glyph class definition table would give you the ability to subdivide bases etc. into multiple classes for free. That takes us in the...

[avar2] Issue where macOS and iOS mishandle avar2 table: fixed?

Thanks Laurence. That's great news.

[`cmap`] >64k expansion

Speced: https://github.com/harfbuzz/boring-expansion-spec/blob/main/beyond-64k.md

[`cmap`] >64k expansion

NOT implemented in HarfBuzz yet.

Allow moving default instance of a varfont with avar2

cc @nedley I would appreciate your feedback. cc @justvanrossum

Allow moving default instance of a varfont with avar2

cc @frankrolf

Allow moving default instance of a varfont with avar2

> @behdad while there may be strong use cases for "moving the default" as you describe using avar2, it seems to me that the frequently requested use case you describe...

Per-script/language vertical metrics

HarfBuzz patch in https://github.com/harfbuzz/harfbuzz/pull/4237

Allow moving default instance of a varfont with avar2

cc @skef

Allow moving default instance of a varfont with avar2

> Adobe also favors using an `fvar` InstanceRecord bit for this purpose. Here's our write-up on this that we'll probably start circulating elsewhere: [vfdefault.pdf](https://github.com/harfbuzz/boring-expansion-spec/files/12164416/vfdefault.pdf) > > Note that we don't...