{"id":16066,"date":"2016-10-14T15:44:06","date_gmt":"2016-10-14T19:44:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/?p=16066"},"modified":"2016-10-14T15:44:06","modified_gmt":"2016-10-14T19:44:06","slug":"opentype-variable-fonts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/2016\/10\/14\/opentype-variable-fonts\/","title":{"rendered":"OpenType Variable Fonts"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/medium.com\/@tiro\/https-medium-com-tiro-introducing-opentype-variable-fonts-12ba6cd2369\">John Hudson<\/a> (via <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/avidrissman\/status\/776096438161989632\">Avi Drissman<\/a>):<\/p>\n<blockquote cite=\"https:\/\/medium.com\/@tiro\/https-medium-com-tiro-introducing-opentype-variable-fonts-12ba6cd2369\">\n<p>An OpenType variable font is one in which the equivalent of multiple individual fonts can be compactly packaged within a single font file. This is done by defining variations within the font, which constitute a single- or multi-axis design space within which many font instances can be interpolated. A variable font is a single font file that behaves like multiple fonts.<\/p>\n<p>[&#8230;]<\/p>\n<p>OpenType Font Variations builds on the model established in Apple&rsquo;s TrueType GX variations in the mid-1990s, but has fully integrated that model into all aspects of the OpenType format, including OpenType Layout, and is available to both TrueType and Compact Font Format (CFF) flavours of OpenType.<\/p>\n<p>[&#8230;]<\/p>\n<p>However, unlike master-based interpolation technologies such as Adobe&rsquo;s earlier multiple master format, an OpenType variable font contains only a single set of glyph outlines, and the other extremes or intermediate shapes are defined as deltas from those outlines.<\/p><\/blockquote>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>John Hudson (via Avi Drissman): An OpenType variable font is one in which the equivalent of multiple individual fonts can be compactly packaged within a single font file. This is done by defining variations within the font, which constitute a single- or multi-axis design space within which many font instances can be interpolated. A variable [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"apple_news_api_created_at":"","apple_news_api_id":"","apple_news_api_modified_at":"","apple_news_api_revision":"","apple_news_api_share_url":"","apple_news_coverimage":0,"apple_news_coverimage_caption":"","apple_news_is_hidden":false,"apple_news_is_paid":false,"apple_news_is_preview":false,"apple_news_is_sponsored":false,"apple_news_maturity_rating":"","apple_news_metadata":"\"\"","apple_news_pullquote":"","apple_news_pullquote_position":"","apple_news_slug":"","apple_news_sections":"\"\"","apple_news_suppress_video_url":false,"apple_news_use_image_component":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[133,295,30,1049,1430,134],"class_list":["post-16066","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-technology","tag-font","tag-history","tag-mac","tag-opentype","tag-quickdraw-gx","tag-typography"],"apple_news_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16066","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=16066"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16066\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16067,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16066\/revisions\/16067"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16066"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16066"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16066"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}