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Since interpolation doesn’t always produce the right results in the middle - which is where there will be most use for the font - there might well be a third master or fourth master to control this. So a variable font with just a weight axis contains the lightest and heaviest fonts to interpolate between. With a single small variable font file, you can replace 1 file on a server and instantly see the changes in a live site, of a different font across all weights used.Įach axis requires at least two masters, which is effectively the same as two normal fonts. To try a different font family, requires going through that process for every font. Then each weight needs configuring to load each distinct file.

Still not sure why Google don’t provide fonts in woff format but that’s just how it is. Up until now the process was a long one that for most users, involves selecting a Google font family, downloading it and then going through the process of converting each ttf font into a woff file for every weight you think you may want. Not only does this bring gains in downloading less and smaller font files, the abillity to fine tune the weights, but it allows a much quicker and far easier process to change all the fonts in a web site by changing one warehoused font file.

#Fontforge mac subset char download

Once you figure out Fonttools pyftsubset, it doesn’t take long to download a selection of Google Variable fonts and subset them them down to silly small sizes.

#Fontforge mac subset char iso

But at the moment, for most purposes, stripping the font down to ISO Latin 1 (ISO 8859-1) will do what we need it to do, and significantly reduce its size. I don’t know too much about the others, but Glyphs allows you to do it with a python macro on export (python is the equivalent of javascript for type designers, which I guess is unsurprising since its creator, Guido van Rossum, is the brother of designer and early PostScript font pioneer Just van Rossum).ĭynamic subsetting, where the browser downloads just those parts of the font it needs, will be the way to go, once some standards emerge (because we never know when someone is going to want to refer to Jarosław Zieliński, Hồ Chí Minh or Þuríður Backman). The heavyweight font editors (Glyphs, FontLab, Robofont and the open source FontForge) also allow for subsets to be made. There are two command line applications - of which pyftsubset is one - which can do the job. But it sounds from your experience that it still doesn‘t work? However Font Squirrel may in the meantime have tweaked their code.

#Fontforge mac subset char how to

I was prompting for instructions on how to test your code.What I had heard in the type design forums is that Font Squirrel couldn’t be used for subsetting variable fonts - it converts them back into static fonts. When I wrote:īut I've never done much with I18N and L10N.

That's how "all this works".įor testing, if you tell me where and how you manage to get FontForge to display the French versions I might have better luck testing the Croatian versions. MacEncLangToTable() on line 1103 maps 18 to that croatian array.

So that array is more or less the table at except with 8 entries per line rather than 16.

The 30th row starts with 0x010d, which is the Unicode value back. The Croatian mapping array croatian starts on line 129 of macenc.c.

Translate that to octal: \350 That's the code.

Note the Hex value in the leftmost column and that in the topmost column: E_ + _8 -> E8.

It's there with its unicode hex value below it in the second-from-the-bottom row. The thicker boxes are around the characters of most interest. Rather than answer your whole question, here is a procedure using č as an example: But assuming the file should be kept as it is. If it's a pre-unicode-support attempt to support multiple character sets, it would be best to just translate everything into unicode and be done with it. Before I go on, I've looked at this a bit more and I'm still not sure what the point of this file is.