Beta 1.042 – improved build for higher quality fonts, fonts for code, subset woff2s, and many little refinements

Download the zip for installation notes and recommendations.

This release adds many upgrades and refinements, including:

• An improved build process with static autohinting and a properly-engineered STAT table for more stable variable fonts
• Static fonts specifically for use in code editors, now supporting italic themes
• Premade woff2 subsets & CSS for use on general websites (specifically tailored to English-language sites because most technical docs & blogs are written in English, but these subsets will load in accented characters when needed)
• Refined kerning in Sans styles (MONO=0)
• A few characters were missing from italic styles & stylistic sets, but these have been added (#311)
• Refined & simplified arrows

Known open issues

• Variable font behavior is a bit unpredictable on macOS / in Sketch (#317, #316, #269)
• On macOS, some linespacing metrics are different by default (#308)
• On macOS, font names with "cursive" in them are treated as italic-by-default (#153)
• A few ligatures are available in italic styles of the variable font, but not yet in the related static instances. (#320)
• More at https://github.com/arrowtype/recursive/issues. File new issues if you find them! :)

This project is nearing general release. The next beta version will likely be released here in a much shorter cycle as I aim to correct the final lingering issues that can be closed in the font itself.