fontgoggles

• Fixed bug where feature compilation from UFO would fail (Issue 432, Issue 433, PR 434)

• Add support for the proposed VARC table for variable components, via updated harfbuzz/uharfbuzz/fonttools dependencies

• No new functionality
• Updated bundled versions of all dependencies (See “About” window for embedded version numbers)
• Updated to Unicode 15.1
• Miscellaneous maintainance
• Updated OpenType feature tags, script tags and language tags
• Upgraded to Python 3.12
• FontGoggles is now a “Universal” build, meaning it runs natively on Apple Silicon as wel as Intel
• Still backwards compatible down to macOS 10.10

• Updated bundled versions of uharfbuzz and fonttools
• Apply kerning between Hiragana and Katakana (Issue 310, PR 311)
• Use Python 3.9

• Added the supported file formats to the drop placeholder text, so they are more discoverable (PR 295)

• Fixed support for macOS <= 10.15

• Fixed cosmetic layout issue on macOS 11 an up. Thanks to Frederik Berlaen. (Issue 293, PR 294)

• Add support for DesignSpace format 5 (Discrete axes and multiple Variable Font definitions) (Issue 291, PR 292)
• Updated internal dependencies: fonttools==4.38.0 and uharfbuzz==0.32.0 among others.
• Updated blackrenderer to 0.6.0, which fixes 276 and 278

• Issue 267, PR 269 by Khaled Hosny:
  • Use HarfBuzz for extracting outlines from binary fonts
  • Update uharfbuzz to 0.29.0 (which updates HarfBuzz to 5.0.0)
  • Remove FreeType dependency

Practically, this means:

• Support for avar 2
• Support for more than 65536 glyphs in OTF/TTF

• Updated blackrenderer to 0.5.2, which implements variable COLRv1 (blackrenderer issue 53, blackrenderer PR 88)

• Updated blackrenderer to 0.5.1, which fixes a bug in COLRv1 handling (blackrenderer issue 93)

• Updated Unicode/unicodedata2 to 14.0.0
• Minor improvement for UFO 2 anchor handling

• Improve support for UFO 2, by adding support for UFO 2 anchors (Issue 226, PR 227)

• Make FontGoggles work on macOS 10.10, 10.11 and 10.12 again (Issue 217)

• Fix crash with faulty COLRv1 font (Issue 213, PR 214, blackrenderer PR 57)

• Fix cosmetic problem on macOS 11 (Issue 202, PR 209)
• Update OpenType feature/language/script tag descriptions (PR 208)
• Fix build problem on macOS 11. Thanks Khaled Hosny! (Issue 206, PR 207)
• COLRv1 spec update via blackrenderer 0.5.0a2 (Issue197, PR 204)

• Fixed bug where UFO's would not display (Issue 185, PR 186)

• Updated blackrenderer to 0.3.1, adding support for the COLRv1/PaintComposite construct

• Don't show hidden axes by default, add button to show them (PR 173)
• Added experimental support for variable components in two forms: fonts with a VarC table, and fonts with an "extended" COLRv1 table (PR 174, commit on master)
• Show versions of all major dependencies in the About text

• Added support for COLRv1 fonts (Issue 162, PR 171)