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Initially I thought this was an error, because there are other variable fonts on Google Fonts that are displayed with multiple sliders, such as Playfair Display or Work Sans. However, it looks like in each of these cases, the italics are a separate font definition, with only a single variable axis (weight) offered for each. It appears Google Fonts doesn’t currently have a way to deal with multi-axis variable fonts.
It’s more the case that the weight axis is common, and commonly understood, so the Google Fonts front end just leaves out any axis that isn’t Weight or Italic, I guess as a “UX” consideration. It’s unfortunate. The good news is, the Google Fonts API (the thing that serves fonts and CSS based on specific URLs) _does_ handle the other axes. So, the Recursive minisite has a configuration tool (under the “Get Recursive”…
Recursive, a free variable font for code and UI, now on Google Fonts
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Re: Recursive, a free variable font for code and UI, now on Google Fonts
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Interesting. But given that so many big brands simply use Arial or Helvetica for their logo and brand, is this really a thing?
Helvetica (Neue) comes in more weights and variations than practically any other typeface. So it is really a thing. https://www.myfonts.com/fonts/linotype/neue-helvetica/ Also, Helvetica is popular in large part because of the very precise personality it has with is quite amenable to the image corporations often like to portray. It become widely available on computers, starting with Macs, because it was already such…
Another way of saying it would be:
Helvetica was put on Macs because it was so popular as a useful font, rather than it becoming popular because it was on Macs.
Re: Recursive, a free variable font for code and UI, now on Google Fonts
#113...Am I the only one who, for some fonts, has issues with the overlapping section of the "A" character in Firefox? https://i.ibb.co/8sbMvL3/Screen-Shot-2020-07-23-at-6-49-52-P... Recursive isn't the only font where this happens, but I did notice it for Recursive. I've also observed this on more than one computer, so it's not just my machine!
Nope, you are not the only one! That is an issue of the font renderer using an “even-odd rule” in vector rendering. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Even%E2%80%93odd_rule What is your OS & OS version? This has generally gotten better over the past couple of years. You can also use the static fonts, however, which don’t have vector overlaps, and Will therefore avoid this issue. In fact, it you were working on print desig…
Maybe it helps to set the OVERLAP_* flags as described in the glyf table spec?