[NTG-context] Re: Fallbacks for design sizes in the current typescripts regime

Hamid,Idris schrieb am 22.08.2023 um 17:45:

On Aug 22, 2023, 2:06 AM -0600, Hans Hagen via ntg-context , wrote:

On 8/22/2023 6:31 AM, Hamid,Idris wrote:

Design sizes for typefaces -- aka "optical sizes" -- are no longer directly implemented in typescripts. From the manual Fonts out of ConTeXt by Hans Hagen, p. 109:

You can still do it but for all these years only cm has design sizes so one can wonder.

Hm.. There are a few others, Minion perhaps being the most popular and extensive. More below:

We have with Antykwa Poltawskiego a second font which provides optical sizes and is shipped with our TeX collection. Wolfgang