Release v1.8.1

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

Release v1.8

• 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

Release v1.7.4

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

Release v1.7.3

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

Release v1.7.2

• Fixed support for macOS <= 10.15

Release v1.7.1

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

Release v1.7.0

• 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

Release v1.6.0

• 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

Release v1.5.0

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

Release v1.4.5

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