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I wonder if that position will change as the utility becomes widely adopted.

Google Fonts serves SVG-in-OpenType to legacy pre-COLRv1 browsers that support that older format, but you lose the variable fonts aspects.

That site is stale

You can DM @googlefonts or email fonts@google.com, as explained in the GF FAQ https://developers.google.com/fonts/faq#how_do_i_contact_goo...

I work on the Google Fonts team. https://developers.google.com/fonts/faq#what_does_using_the_... was updated today, confirming Google Fonts doesn't log IP addresses. Given that, it…

The Google Fonts API serves different formats based on user agent. Woff2 is still the best, until Incremental Font Transfer arrives

It's Windows Firefox only

It's the nexus of visual culture, history, politics, linguistics, technology, business... as a visual artist, type has a purity of form that has a Zen quality. It's both completely…

The ramp isn't meant to be different weights. The left is the original Material Design 1 ramp that uses tracking and static font weight tweaks to try to approximate an even color. …

See thread @ https://twitter.com/googlefonts/status/1522778639305101312?t...

All designed by hand.

In deep typography circles, 'parametric fonts' means typefaces where their attributes are isolated and can be controlled as parameters. That can be done with OpenType Variable Font…

Metafont has never found wide adoption, because to be a triple threat of typeface designer, mathematician, and software developer, you basically have to be a tenured stanford profe…

The www.glyphsapp.com and www.fontlab.com font editor apps have "smart components" which do this. Sadly the OpenType format is developed very conservatively by Microsoft so these a…

The css standard for "dynamically loaded, on demand" is Unicode Range.

Yes, Noto SC is available from fonts.google.com/earlyaccess

That's a narrow definition of effective advertising. Consider https://www.google.com/search?q=equation+billboard+ad&tbm=is...

The fonts are made with freshly written extensions to the RoboFont editor; notably, the original source drawings are made in quadratic bezier splines, not the typical cubic ones. M…

I could see that being used in an advertisement where it taking a moment to figure out the text is intended

Yes, all applications now need an all-new font widget. The first program with such a widget is https://github.com/googlei18n/fontview

Its part of the TrueType specification from Apple in 1987, which calls them 'components' - they are in all modern font editors.

Its not ;) But there is a js version on http://fontly.com/sandbox/spiro.html