![]() So, all you really need inside a font are the entries for the Windows platform. Though, as it turns out, the differentiation between platforms has become more and more obsolete, and all software today can do just perfectly without the Mac entries. This is also how Glyphs handles it by default: any name you enter in Font Info is stored for both platforms. Typically, fonts created in this millennium would contain name table entries for the Mac platform and the Windows platform. It allows to store each of these entries for different languages and even different operating systems or ‘platforms’, as the spec calls them. One of these tables is the naming table or name table, which stores all kinds of wordings for the font: the family name, the style name, the copyright, you name it. Internally, OpenType fonts consist of tables. That may sound counterintuitive, but most algorithms that scan for monospaced fonts will skip fonts that have nonspacing marks with zero widths. If you have been using the betas, you may have seen those already:Īnother thing that is new, is that really all glyphs are set to the monospaced value (be it the width of the wordspace or the number value), and that includes nonspacing glyphs now. ![]() Speaking of static fonts, all coordinates are now properly rounded after interpolation.Īnd, Glyphs performs more checks and error reports at export, including impossible master setups or outlines that do not lend themselves to TT conversion for variable fonts. Nothing new, but now the preview respects the parameter and gets updated as soon as you add or change it. ![]() In static font exports, you can add an InterpolationWeightY parameter for differentiate between x and y coordinates in interpolation. And feature variations now also export for cursive attachment, i.e., exit and entry anchors, very important for Arabic variable fonts. In further variable-font news, export of axis names to the STAT table has been improved. The range for the internal coordinates is determined by the actual axis positions of the masters in Font Info > Masters, whereas the range for external coordinates is determined by the Axis Location parameters in Font Info > Masters.
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