On Tue, 3 Jun 2008 18:43:15 +0300 Niko Kiirala <niko@...1267...> wrote:
Too bad that this would first need working SVG Fonts support and released Tinkerhouse code...
the code *will* be out today :)
but as an aside, the whole typeface generation engine is still very much in development, and i'd venture to say that a stable/usable version will not be out before August. I have been working on an Inkscape plugin for testing it, so maybe that would be a better way to introduce this type design interface into Inkscape - then we can talk ;)
but still, i find Alexandre's suggestion of moving away from bold/italic divisions very appropriate - not to mention quite a daring break with digital typographical 'tradition'! I wonder how to sort between existing fonts to determine which ones are lighter or bolder than others, but then I seem to remember that FontMatrix incorporates PANOSE categories support, which might be the thing we need here...
just my 2 cents. big ups, :r