On Tue, Jan 18, 2011 at 6:42 PM, Ambrose LI <ambrose.li@gmail.com> wrote: > But is this realistic? Perhaps with Latin, but with CJK? Maybe with > J/K, but I cannot see how this can be realistic with C, especially TC. > > Right now we can't even count on having a true italic (e.g., kai > style) font on a random user's system. Nor count on having more than a > single "light" weight for serif and a single "medium" weight for > sans-serif. Why would we assume that things will not only get better, > but so much better (and ubiquitous) that we can assume we have fonts > that are designed with interpolated width and weight in mind? > > Just my personal opinion. 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. Cheers, T -- “Puritanism: The haunting fear that someone, somewhere, may be happy.” —H.L. Mencken
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