@Chris Lilley 🏴
“Father of SVG”. @W3C staff. Co-developed PNG, @font-face, WOFF. W3C rep to ICC. These days working on Web Fonts, Web Audio, CSS. He/him.
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Recent Notes
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https://typo.social/system/media_attachments/files/117/122/919/377/048...
@nprofile1q... @nprofile1q... Oh ffs.
U+3FBD1 LEFTMOST 10 PERCENT OF GINORMOUS RIGHT POINTING HAND
Stop doing variable glyph design in the wrong place.
U+3FBD1 LEFTMOST 10 PERCENT OF GINORMOUS RIGHT POINTING HAND
Stop doing variable glyph design in the wrong place.
16 years ago, the first public working draft of Web Open Font Format (WOFF) was published. WOFF is how downloadable fonts on the Web went from "no-one uses it" to "most sites use it".
I reflected on this milestone in a blog post today:
https://www.w3.org/blog/2026/woff-1-0-a-milestone-on-w3cs-journey-of-fonts-on-the-web/
I reflected on this milestone in a blog post today:
https://www.w3.org/blog/2026/woff-1-0-a-milestone-on-w3cs-journey-of-fonts-on-the-web/
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Dear Boston-area lazyweb, is it possible to procure smoked haddock (Arbroath Smokies, Finnan Haddie) in the Boston, US area?
Trying to make Cullen Skink and coming up blank.
#Scotland #Boston #CullenSkink
Trying to make Cullen Skink and coming up blank.
#Scotland #Boston #CullenSkink
The Fonts chapter of the 2025 Web Almanac, by HTTP Archive, is now available
#webfonts
https://almanac.httparchive.org/en/2025/fonts
#webfonts
https://almanac.httparchive.org/en/2025/fonts
New working draft of CSS Color HDR today! A bunch of improvements since the first draft. Spec has the full list but let me guide you to the most important ones: 1/n
The @nprofile1q... Web Fonts Working Group has updated the Incremental Font Transfer (IFT) specification.
All the things that an encoder or a client (decoder) must do are explicitly called out, to make testing easier.
#webfonts #fonts
https://www.w3.org/TR/2025/CRD-IFT-20251118/
All the things that an encoder or a client (decoder) must do are explicitly called out, to make testing easier.
#webfonts #fonts
https://www.w3.org/TR/2025/CRD-IFT-20251118/
Do you wish computers were for you to make art with, and not just to make money for your boss's boss?
Then you probably want in on the Oblique Palette project. Make a computer that's part of a #modul...
@nprofile1q... Ooh, narrow that undefined region (ideally so it works with 3V3 as well) and add hysteresis because trigger levels going up should not be the same as going down.
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@nprofile1q... @nprofile1q... @nprofile1q... Bitstream. In the late 90s they were marketing a technology called PFR which basically executed a font, creating a per-glyph bitmap which was then curve fitted to make a new glyph in their totally-not-a-font and thus, they claimed, any font license on the original font did not apply.
They licensed it to Netscape who used it in Netscape Navigator 4.x browsers.
It was dropped when Netscape was rewritten to make Firefox, because of the Bitstream license.
They licensed it to Netscape who used it in Netscape Navigator 4.x browsers.
It was dropped when Netscape was rewritten to make Firefox, because of the Bitstream license.
Some interesting backstory on nostr:nprofile1qyt8wumn8ghj7un9d3shjtnyd968gmewwp6kytcqypgt6xmnkucm48easj29hsgv74l7wvp93234elavxxas39f42tprjmevk0r’s “Moral Code”, part of nostr:nprofile1qyt8wumn8g...
@nprofile1q... @nprofile1q... @nprofile1q... Or alternatively, saying they were not making a font. Instead they were making "Portable Font Resources" which, clearly, were totally not fonts. 🤔
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The @nprofile1q... WebFonts working group now has a fully functional Demo of Incremental Font Transfer which compares IFT to normal font loading with Unicode-range static subsetting. Just click on "next text sample" to see the font being upgraded in real time to support more writing systems and more font variation axes. There is a running total of bytes transferred, you can see that IFT loads much less data.
Both CFF2 and glyf fonts are used in the demo.
https://garretrieger.github.io/ift-demo/
#webfonts
Both CFF2 and glyf fonts are used in the demo.
https://garretrieger.github.io/ift-demo/
#webfonts
So I see that Visual Studio Code will now *sometimes* open SVG files as a graphical preview. Which would be nice, as an option, but I can't figure out how to go from that to a text editing view (yes I frequently edit SVG as text). Any tips?
@nprofile1q...
@nprofile1q...
pngcheck, a command-line PNG validator, has just released version 4.0.0!!
New features which justify a major version number bump include support for:
‣ Coding Independent Code Points cICP
‣ Mastering Display Color Volume mDCV
‣ Content Light Level Information cLLI
‣ Animated PNG acTL, fcTL and fdAT
https://github.com/pnggroup/pngcheck
New features which justify a major version number bump include support for:
‣ Coding Independent Code Points cICP
‣ Mastering Display Color Volume mDCV
‣ Content Light Level Information cLLI
‣ Animated PNG acTL, fcTL and fdAT
https://github.com/pnggroup/pngcheck