Industry leaders will reveal details of a major technological update to the OpenType standard. Participants include: David Lemon (Senior Manager of Type Development at Adobe), Peter Constable (Senior Program Manager at Microsoft), Behdad Esfahbod (Staff Software Engineer, Tech Lead: Fonts & Text Rendering at Google) Ned Holbrook (Senior Software Engineer at Apple Inc.), and Simon… Continue reading Special OpenType Session
Where OpenType is, and where it’s going Bianca Berning opens the day with an update on the adoption of Variable Fonts, the development of solutions for VF rendering, and progress on workflows for VF testing and development.
“Multiple color font formats were introduced in OpenType almost ten years ago, but none of the formats have been widely embraced and adopted because each one has trade-offs. Bitmaps provide rich presentation capabilities but lead to large font files. OT-SVG is a vector format with rich capabilities but leads to large font files and requires… Continue reading Advancing Color Formats in OpenType
“The introduction of OpenType font handling technology in 1996 fostered significant improvements in processing and modeling complex scripts in digital media. However, there are still deficiencies in handling the Arabic script. Major issues currently involve justification and tatweel/kashida/extension treatments, differentiating anchors of dots and marks in certain programming situations, and a variety of problems relating… Continue reading Deficiencies of Handling Arabic Script in OpenType (and Some Possible Solutions)