Is there a woff-2 version of the variable font avialable?

[sgarrity]

Love the font and thanks for all the work. We use it for our company website: https://www.silverorange.com/

Is there a WOFF-2 version of the variable font available? Thanks.

[EbenSorkin]

Google did stop making WOFF2s as products because their own process makes them internally from TFFs. But I can add these. If you go here you can get them now. We have converted this project to use optical sizes. The original design is the smallest optical size. https://github.com/SorkinType/Merriweather

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[sgarrity]

@EbenSorkin Thanks so much for the quick response and action.

I'm don't want to take advantage of your time asking for specific features, but...

Is the variable font something that can be delivered as a WOFF2 file? I'll look into doing this conversion myself too (with something like https://henry.codes/writing/how-to-convert-variable-ttf-font-files-to-woff2/).

While I'm asking questions: I see in the https://github.com/SorkinType/Merriweather/tree/master/fonts/variable dir that there are two variable fonts, regular and italic. Have you considered making the italic-ness (🤷) an attribute of a single variable font? Or are the regular and italic variants of Merriweather too different? Even if there wasn't a sliding-scale of italic-ness, there could be an advantage on the web of delivering a single WOFF2 variable font file that includes all weights of both regular and italic.

Thanks again for your responsiveness and your great font.

[EbenSorkin]

I think that the variable font is essentially its own thing. Like most woffs and woff2 files, the glyphs shapes themselves are ttf flavored. Also, the variable font there in the Git is as far as I know state of the art in terms of compression. I expect it will be updated again in a month or two because of new advances but I don't think there is such a thing as a woff variable vs a ttf variable. There is such a thing as OTF variable but that's rare. Regarding making the italic an axis. There are two reasons not to. 1) the italic is designed completely differently than the roman and doesn't share construction in many cases with the upright or roman. Making them compatible (even if you had infinite time) would result in many extra points being added making the file less efficient. 2) Many people only use the roman so web latency is improved by keeping them separate. Right now we support Latin and Cyrillic and both have small caps so the file is pretty huge. The huger the more this argument holds water. But if we add more languages it will be bigger still. And some scripts don't have an italic. No reason to penalize them! Maybe in the future, we will be able to put non-compatible shapes into a Variable font and the roman and Italic will just swap.

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On Sun, May 16, 2021 at 5:04 PM Steven Garrity ***@***.***> wrote: @EbenSorkin <https://github.com/EbenSorkin> Thanks so much for the quick response and action. I'm don't want to take advantage of your time asking for specific features, but... Is the variable font something that can be delivered as a WOFF2 file? I'll look into doing this conversion myself too (with something like https://henry.codes/writing/how-to-convert-variable-ttf-font-files-to-woff2/ ). While I'm asking questions: I see in the https://github.com/SorkinType/Merriweather/tree/master/fonts/variable dir that there are two variable fonts, regular and italic. Have you considered making the italic-ness (🤷) an attribute of a single variable font? Or are the regular and italic variants of Merriweather too different? Even if there wasn't a sliding-scale of italic-ness, there could be an advantage on the web of delivering a single WOFF2 variable font file that includes all weights of both regular and italic. Thanks again for your responsiveness and your great font. — You are receiving this because you were mentioned. Reply to this email directly, view it on GitHub <#535 (comment)>, or unsubscribe <https://github.com/notifications/unsubscribe-auth/AAQUQXJ5ZQPCHZF2GSJNSWLTOAXPTANCNFSM447BNOIA> .