- From: John Hudson <tiro@tiro.com>
- Date: Tue, 18 Jan 2011 20:48:00 -0800
- To: www-style list <www-style@w3.org>, www-font@w3.org
Thomas Phinney wrote: > My understanding is that because CJK fonts have so many glyphs, for > typefaces with multiple weights, use of axis-based technologies in > designing the typefaces is just as common as it is for western fonts, > perhaps more so. Indeed. And as Tim Ahrens has demonstrated*, once you have a weight axis, one can algorithmically produce width axis masters of reasonable quality -- i.e. they will need manual refinement for best results, but will get you a good distance to your goal -- quite easily. * http://remix-tools.com/addaxis/index.htm JH
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