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-face, WOFF. W3C rep to ICC. These days working on Web Fonts, Web Audio, CSS. He/him.
Dear typographers of Mastodon:
Do any variable fonts exist which support both italics and obliques, in the same font?
(This is not a challenge to go make one. I'm also not assuming that intermediate forms (ugh!) would exist; just that the one font could produce either on demand).
Please boost for reach; #css would like good data before designing solutions to non-existent problems.
Comments welcome at
Okay, top trolling, facebook.
New working draft of Compositing and Blending
https://www.w3.org/TR/2024/CRD-compositing-1-20240321/
A fairly modest set of changes, but it had been a while:
https://www.w3.org/TR/2024/CRD-compositing-1-20240321/#changes
New working draft of #css Typed Object Model
https://www.w3.org/TR/2024/WD-css-typed-om-1-20240321/
Lots of changes since the last (2018!!) working draft
https://www.w3.org/TR/2024/WD-css-typed-om-1-20240321/#changes-20180410
@thor@berserker.town Yeah, making reduced test cases is hard.
@thor@berserker.town Clearly that is a DRC bug, because ERC will say there is a connection.