Thomas Phinney

Google is not currently maintaining any NPM package, whether for fonts or SVGs. Anyone else is welcome to do so, but… even if somebody wanted to, they would have to...

Oh dear! Thanks for flagging this. The Material Symbols fonts do not have proper alphabetic characters. But they do have placeholders, lowercase slots that are present but empty (like spaces),...

Clarification: Material Symbols has the problem. Are you saying that Wingdings does not? What about Material Icons (the non-variable fonts)? It may be there is some metadata we can change...

I sent you a DM on Twitter to see about sharing some test fonts. It happens that I have exactly none of the particular apps you are using, and Adobe...

Shared test files. I am not terribly optimistic that this will do the trick (or quite possibly will help some but not all cases), but it is worth a try.

Thanks for checking that out for me. Too bad it didn’t help, but that was not a shock. Just wanted to be sure there was no easy solution. Obviously we...

I’ll just add that I realized today that, because of the need for compatibility with existing metrics, probably the added glyphs would have to be caps-only designs. That is, even...

Built, about to test. It occurs to me that each of the two possible approaches has different tradeoffs. 1) Make lowercase characters real marking glyphs, but do not include uppercase....

I did approach (2) above. After an initial false start, I got something that works OK. @seasehee1 saw the result and is good with it. This should be in the...

License is correct in the variable fonts, this was in the static OTF fonts. The latest static OTF fonts are _almost_ right, but the date is 2019! Should be current—actually...