Typography Weekly #111

Craig Eliason, professor in the art history department at the University of St. Thomas in St. Paul (Minnesota) explores how digital typefaces can be ‘acquired’ by museums.

InDesign (16.2) can now automatically map the optical size value in variable fonts to the font size you set, for the text in your document.

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Clauses written into licensing agreements could help designers have more control over their work

Google and Adobe joined forces to design and develop the world’s first open-source Pan-CJK typeface: Source Han Sans (released as Noto Sans CJK by Google). Today, Adobe is delighted to publish the family’s latest iteration, Source Han Sans Variable.

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