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<div><span style="color: rgb(38, 40, 42); font-family: Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">On Tuesday, April 16, 2024 at 08:04:40 AM EDT, Didier Verna <didier@didierverna.net> wrote:</span><br></div></div><div id="ydp9982846cyahoo_quoted_3878393705" class="ydp9982846cyahoo_quoted"><div style="font-family:'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif;font-size:13px;color:#26282a;">
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<div>>do any of you know if there's a font format out there that has a<br></div><div><div dir="ltr">>standardized way to store the axis ?<br></div><div dir="ltr">></div><div dir="ltr">>I mean the font's axis in the typographic sense (the orientation of a<br></div><div dir="ltr">>pen that would have been used to draw the curve), not in the sense of a<br></div><div dir="ltr">>variable font's design parameter axis.<br></div><div dir="ltr"><br></div><div dir="ltr" data-setdir="false">Another word for this might be "ductus".</div><div dir="ltr" data-setdir="false"><br></div><div dir="ltr" data-setdir="false">METAFONT is the only program which has an option for that.</div><div dir="ltr" data-setdir="false"><br></div><div dir="ltr" data-setdir="false">There are single-stroke fonts such as ""Modern" and the serif equivalent in Windows, but they're not really supported anymore, and the "Hershey Fonts" require a special plug-in to be made use of in Inkscape.</div><div dir="ltr" data-setdir="false"><br></div><div dir="ltr" data-setdir="false">Apparently Courier was initially set up as such a stroke font, but since has bee regularized as an outline font.</div><div dir="ltr" data-setdir="false"><br></div><div dir="ltr" data-setdir="false">That's another term which may aid in your searching.</div><div dir="ltr" data-setdir="false"><br></div><div dir="ltr" data-setdir="false">They tend to be spindle an unattractive though.</div><div dir="ltr"><br></div><div dir="ltr">>I suppose that the Open Type format is flexible enought to let you do<br></div><div dir="ltr">>that, but I couldn't find any reference to a standardized way of doing<br></div><div dir="ltr">>so (and looking for "axis" irrevocably points to the variable font<br></div><div dir="ltr">>parameters information).<br></div><div dir="ltr"><br></div></div><div dir="ltr" data-setdir="false">OpenType (like TrueType) pretty much require an outline describing the perimeter of the font.</div><div dir="ltr" data-setdir="false"><br></div><div dir="ltr" data-setdir="false">I believe there was some work in FontForge for this sort of thing (the name "Spiro" sticks in my mind).</div><div dir="ltr" data-setdir="false"><br></div><div dir="ltr" data-setdir="false">I'd love to see a graphical/interactive tool for METAFONT/POST which would allow assigning pen outlines to a stroke --- maybe one of these days I'll learn enough about programming to write such a tool. Currently bogged down on "Design into 3D".</div><div dir="ltr" data-setdir="false"><br></div><div dir="ltr" data-setdir="false">William</div><div dir="ltr" data-setdir="false"><br></div><div dir="ltr" data-setdir="false">-- </div><div dir="ltr" data-setdir="false">Sphnix of black quartz, judge my vow</div><div dir="ltr" data-setdir="false"><span><a href="https://designinto3d.com/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank" class="">https://designinto3d.com/</a></span><div><br></div><div><br></div><div><br></div><br></div>
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