What you can get out of a high-quality font
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Re: What you can get out of a high-quality font
#2Caveat: Google Fonts, and by extension Fontsource which mostly just mirrors Googles files, strips out nearly all of the advanced OpenType features to reduce the filesize. It's worth checking the upstream version of your font to see which features it actually offers.
e.g. Wakamai Fondue lists 11 features for Googles version of Inter (some essential ones plus fractions, tabular numbers, numerators, denominators and contextual alts), while the full fat version of Inter has a whopping 44 features (too many to list, see https://rsms.me/inter/).
Re: What you can get out of a high-quality font
#3as a designer by education, this level of font control for web is delusional. and mostly a waste of time (both for the designers and the users receiving on unexpected screen ratios/resolutions/tech/era/etc and getting a worse experience if the designers hadn't wasted the time)
this brings me bad memories from the time websites were done by "desktop publishing" designers and html was crafted "pixel perfect" (with tables)
thankfully I can easily be a curmudgeon and just set all sites to use my favorite fixed width font and disable the designers choice with one checkbox on firefox.
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#4Tabular numerals are such a valuable feature. It's a bummer they're not more prevalent.
Re: What you can get out of a high-quality font
#5Caveat: Google Fonts, and by extension Fontsource which mostly just mirrors Googles files, strips out nearly all of the advanced OpenType features to reduce the filesize. It's worth checking the upstream version of your font to see which features it actually offers. e.g. Wakamai Fondue lists 11 features for Googles version of Inter (some essential ones plus fractions, tabular numbers, numerators, denominators and con…
it's the year of the lord 2024 and OSes still don't ship with a common set of open license fonts with most of unicode like nerdfonts. shameful.
I wish all the effort the big four wasted fighting for emoji supremacy would have been used to normalize a decent set of full unicode fonts once and for all.
Re: What you can get out of a high-quality font
#6Caveat: Google Fonts, and by extension Fontsource which mostly just mirrors Googles files, strips out nearly all of the advanced OpenType features to reduce the filesize. It's worth checking the upstream version of your font to see which features it actually offers. e.g. Wakamai Fondue lists 11 features for Googles version of Inter (some essential ones plus fractions, tabular numbers, numerators, denominators and con…
Wow. Do you happen to know if that just for API-based usage, or for downloads too?
> The Google Fonts API currently does not support requesting the inclusion of optional (also known as discretionary, or opt-in) OpenType Features, such as Stylistic Sets (salt) or Small Caps (smcp, c2sc). Instead the glyphs contained in these features may be published as a separate family… https://googlefonts.github.io/gf-guide/requirements.html#ope...
Re: What you can get out of a high-quality font
#7Caveat: Google Fonts, and by extension Fontsource which mostly just mirrors Googles files, strips out nearly all of the advanced OpenType features to reduce the filesize. It's worth checking the upstream version of your font to see which features it actually offers. e.g. Wakamai Fondue lists 11 features for Googles version of Inter (some essential ones plus fractions, tabular numbers, numerators, denominators and con…
it's the year of the lord 2024 and OSes still don't ship with a common set of open license fonts with most of unicode like nerdfonts. shameful. I wish all the effort the big four wasted fighting for emoji supremacy would have been used to normalize a decent set of full unicode fonts once and for all.
Can't expect the big four to use their immeasurable wealth for the common good, now can we?
If anyone, then distro creators and maintainers will have to make that step. Google surely enjoys getting so much information due to hapless users loading Googlefonts on websites.
Re: What you can get out of a high-quality font
#8as a designer by education, this level of font control for web is delusional. and mostly a waste of time (both for the designers and the users receiving on unexpected screen ratios/resolutions/tech/era/etc and getting a worse experience if the designers hadn't wasted the time) this brings me bad memories from the time websites were done by "desktop publishing" designers and html was crafted "pixel perfect" (with tabl…
> delusional
Hard disagree.
> pixel perfect
I prefer that era of wob design to now.
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#9Crazy how most fonts don't support any of this... (update: oops, I'm wrong!)
Re: What you can get out of a high-quality font
#10Caveat: Google Fonts, and by extension Fontsource which mostly just mirrors Googles files, strips out nearly all of the advanced OpenType features to reduce the filesize. It's worth checking the upstream version of your font to see which features it actually offers. e.g. Wakamai Fondue lists 11 features for Googles version of Inter (some essential ones plus fractions, tabular numbers, numerators, denominators and con…
it's the year of the lord 2024 and OSes still don't ship with a common set of open license fonts with most of unicode like nerdfonts. shameful. I wish all the effort the big four wasted fighting for emoji supremacy would have been used to normalize a decent set of full unicode fonts once and for all.
> a common set of open license fonts with most of unicode
I am (clearly) clueless here, but isn't that what Noto's supposed to be?