Google Fonts continues to add or ‘onboard’ more and more variable fonts every year. To accelerate the onboarding process, we have commissioned improvements to our process, with better tools and documentation. As new variable fonts often introduce new axes to the Google Fonts product, a key step in onboarding is registering definitions of new axes within our systems. In this presentation, we will explain our axis registry, the tools and documentation we’ve developed around it that form a sort of protocol — and why you might want to create your own.
Date
Friday, May 12th 2023
Venue
Salle 106
Axis Registration with Google Fonts
Speaker
Dave Crossland
Dave Crossland attended the first Libre Graphics Meeting in 2006, and became fascinated with the potential of libre licensing to improve design. Since then, he has worked to liberate typography, mainly as a program manager for Google Fonts. Currently he is especially interested in further advancing the OpenType format to address various longstanding shortcomings that hinder high quality typographic automation.
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