More color fonts 🚧🚧🚧

How to Manually Install, Update, and Uninstall Fonts on Linux by Chris Simpkins link.medium.com/9lmuRDYFQlb

Vectora A #rustlang library for vector computation with real and complex scalar data Notable: - vector arithmetic with operator overloads - float approx eq rel - common ops (dot, linear interp, magnitude, dist, norm,…) github.com/chrissimpkins/… Docs: docs.rs/vectora

I may be getting close to my life long dream of ASCII art for building tool UI. _Hopefully_ this will be good enough to be a part of ezui in @[email protected] in the future. I'm updating all the ezui demos to use it as a test case and so far so good… 🔡➡︎➡︎➡︎☎️🖼🔘☑️🎚&c.

Avoiding Source Code Spoofing unicode.org/L2/L2022/22007…

ufofmt (v0.7.1) A fast, flexible UFO source file formatter based on the Rust Norad library Minor fix, includes a number of dependency updates. github.com/source-foundry…

A step forward: Microsoft Edge has updated with Chromium 98, and now supports COLR v1.

Respecting the outlines Notes on Hinting Variable fonts in Visual TrueType (VTT) github.com/googlefonts/ho… Dave Crossland Chris Simpkins

TIL You can grep font binaries for table tag strings. Found this in an old TypeDrawers thread. Thanks @simoncozens!

Published today, A guide to Hinting Complex Variable fonts in VTT, using Noto Serif Devanagari, as a case study. A big thank you kalapi for your help and feedback. Feedback welcome : ) Dave Crossland Chris Simpkins googlefonts.github.io/how-to-hint-co…

f-actions/hyperglot v1.0.0 GitHub Action for font language support testing based on the @rosettatype Hyperglot executable and database Simple to include in new and existing GitHub Actions build workflows. Apache 2.0 github.com/marketplace/ac… #fonts #languages #i18n #l10n

Looks like Illustrator followed Photoshop made the switch to HarfBuzz, so only InDesign is left.

See the new color fonts on Google Fonts? 😍 Variable fonts that you can update with CSS ✨ This is "Nabla", a color font inspired by isometric computer games 🕹️ You can change depth, highlight, and even override the color palette 🎨 👉 material.io/blog/color-fon… 👇 Demo link

If you are adventurous, and setting up a Python virtual environment doesn’t scare you: please join us in our quest to create an awesome browser-based font editor! fontra.xyz

BREAKING: Adobe is nearing a deal to acquire Figma, a startup that makes online design collaboration tools, sources say trib.al/u7hC3Sn

Just van Rossum That's super cool, Just! Here is Fontra running on a chromebook. Finally I don't always need to have a Mac at hand just to inspect some font sources :)

COLRv1 and Rethinking Variations simoncozens.github.io/colrv1-rocks/