![]() ![]() The italic and the bold weight fonts of the set (if any) are not shown in the font menu, but can still be accessed by selecting the base style font, and then using the italic and bold style buttons. ![]() In many Windows® applications, instead of every font appearing on the menu, fonts are grouped into style-linked sets, and only the name of the base style font for a set is shown in the menu. The fonts include proportional Kannada numerals. The designer has provided careful kerning of all vowel signs and modifiers. A full set of Kannada ligatures is included in the fonts to provide the most natural shaping of Kannada text. The Adobe Kannada fonts comply with the Unicode standard for character encoding and leverage OpenType layout to produce correct script shaping. Careful attention to shaping and details allow these typefaces to be used in a range of type sizes from small text to heading and display sizes. Adobe Kannada features a contrast distribution somewhat lower than the norm so as to maintain strong, legible forms at small sizes. The letter construction is based on traditional Kannada text typeface designs, including the influential Basel Mission Press Kannada typeface, which set a strong precedent for weight, form, and proportions for succeeding type designs for Kannada. The primary intended usage - for printed outputs, particularly continuous text settings - guided the design direction. This type family was designed to harmonize with Adobe’s other Brahmic fonts, both in terms of apparent size and style, to ensure that this suite of typeface families can be typeset together as a system. Hopefully they'll add some other defunct Type 1 MM fonts as updated OTF Variable versions (Penumbra, Nueva, etc).The Adobe Kannada typeface was designed by Erin McLaughlin, with Brahmic script expert Fiona Ross consulting on the design. Kepler is another "Adobe Original" added, which seems like a call-back to when Kepler was available as a Type 1 Multiple Master font. I'm kind of happy to see variable versions of Acumin and Myriad added, which means they'll be able to be used outside of Adobe Illustrator. It has something like 96 static styles, but 1 Variable font file can duplicate all those styles (plus any subtle in-between levels). One example is Obviously by the Oh No Type Foundry. Adobe has added the companion variable versions in a decent number of cases. ![]() ![]() Some of the "static" type families they've hosted for a long time have had variable versions available. I had been wondering for some time if/when Adobe would ever add variable fonts to the Adobe Fonts service. The live previews work very smoothly (Google Fonts' variable type tester also works pretty well). They offer multiple controls numerical sliders off to the right and some manual handles around the sample type object. Pages for each variable family feature a pretty nice "type tester" where you can play around with the axes. The Adobe Fonts web page has been updated to add a search filter for variable fonts. Most of them have multiple variable axes (including some unusual ones like "style" or "bounce"). This is a pretty decent collection of variable families. Adobe just added 122 OTF Variable Font families to the Adobe Fonts service. ![]()
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