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✨🎉✨ Unicode Version 16.0 has been released! ✨🧨✨ Bringing the total number of characters to 154,998! ✨🍾✨ Find more information here → unicode.org/versions/Unicode… #Unicode16
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There are still some issues with sweep gradients, but yes, by and large FontGoggles now supports variable COLRv1. github.com/justvanrossum/fon…

Releases · justvanrossum/fontgoggles

FontGoggles: Visual OTL Preview and QA. Contribute to justvanrossum/fontgoggles development by creating an account on GitHub.

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Sophia Type@SophiaTypeLove14 Jul 2022
Announcement: variable-gradients for #COLRv1 are now working, and I am so happy! 😭🎉 You can preview your exported font files with the new version of #fontgoggles by @justvanrossum
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I finally managed to watch @FreyaHolmer’s video about (the math behind) Bézier curves. It is truly fantastic, with great explanations and visualisations. Its 1M (!) views are well deserved. youtube.com/watch?v=aVwxzDHn…
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my work in progress: variable, color font BroshK4 (for #COLRv1 format, I hope) #variablefonts #colorfonts #typography
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The plan suggested in this article from Beijing doesn’t match at all with the Xinhua News Agency’s report from Ulaanbaatar. Everyone plz go read the latter (with Google Translate) & note how it’s still a 2025-onward bi-script plan (resume, not revert to): xinhuanet.com/world/2020-03/…
Jo De Baerdemaeker@typojo21 Mar 2020
thetimes.co.uk/article/mongo…

Mongolia abandons Soviet past by restoring alphabet

Mongolia has announced plans to restore the use of its traditional alphabet by 2025, replacing the Cyrillic script adopted under the Soviets as it moves away from Russian influence.It will take...

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My talk from JSConf Hawaii is out, along with a bunch of other wonderful talks. If you're looking for something to do, go take a look! ☺️
JSConf Hawaiʻi@JSConfHi22 Mar 2020
▶️All of JSConfHI 2020 Day One is now UP on YouTube! ✨🌴🌞🌊 Enjoy new talks from @sambego @ohhoe @olearycrew @Mandy_Kerr @techevangelista and @ericastanley on topics ranging from encryption, variable fonts, accessibility, inclusivity, and remote work! youtube.com/playlist?list=PL…

JSConf HI 2020

JSConf Hawaii 2020 was held from Feb 5-7 in Waikiki, Hawaii, USA.

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JUST WATCH THIS
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✨🍾✨ #Unicode13 has been released! ✨🎉✨ Bringing the total number of characters to 143,859! ✨🥳✨ More information can be found here → unicode.org/versions/Unicode…
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Variable Fonts give you all of the font styles with less of the download weight, cross-browser. What do they give you? bit.ly/vf-what How do they improve WebPerf? bit.ly/vf-webperf Do @GoogleFonts support them? Yes! h/t @jpamental @Mandy_Kerr and more.

Variable Fonts

With Variable Fonts you can use as many variations of a font as you like without slowing down your site

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Why don’t we just coin a word “orthoakshar“ for referring to that script behavior/grammar/validity/… concept? 👹 “Arguably, although केु is not orthographically meaningful in the Hindi–Devanagari writing system, it is an orthoaksharically valid Devanagari structure.”
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“Knights of the Round Table” at Wednesday’s #UTC156 dinner (counter-clockwise from 🕕: Michel Suignard, @mark_e_davis, Jiali,Sheng, @sei_berkeley, @roozbehp, yours truly, @iwsfutcmd, his better half [fiancée] & Asmus Freytag) — photo by @@pgconstable
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new on Fontblog, some notes on the GASP table. blogs.msdn.microsoft.com/fon…
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Big news from @MicrosoftEdge: it ships with support for #variablefonts in the Windows 10 April 2018 update. (Also great that they use an embedded @CodePen as a demo.) blogs.windows.com/msedgedev/…
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The new process for proposing and reviewing new OT variation axes went live this morning: typedrawers.com/discussion/2…
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NEW BLOG POST: Axis-Praxis receives birthday greetings! 🎂 Thanks to all who sent a review 😀 axis-praxis.org/blog/2017-11…
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How to assemble real working @variablefonts in @Fontlab VI Public Preview, today: vimeo.com/240741883
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If you’re interested, I ran a few file size comparison tests between Gimlet’s variable fonts and its static ones: stuff.djr.com/gimlet-vf-size…
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Variable font news everywhere! Big shout-out to friends at Apple, Google, Microsoft. #Variablefonts, @behdadesfahbod, @pgconstable @nedley
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An Italic eyeball for visualizing prepositions in Casey's grammar (1819). @DesignMuseum #FontSunday
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Peter Constable @[email protected] retweeted
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What makes a great leader? I share my thoughts here: b-gat.es/2dcB06o
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