New "Stylistic set 2: Disambiguation" without zero disambiguation

[manuelmeister]

Non-IT people don't understand the slashed zero and it is generally not often seen. But I really like the disambiguation of the big I, the small l and the german ß.

Problem
In Microsoft Word, you can only choose between stylistic sets. You can't activate character variants.

Solution
Is it possible to create a new stylistic set for everyone, without the slashed zero?

[rsms]

You can enable the individual alternates. ss02 is a “predefined set of alternates”. For example, here are all features enabled that comes with ss02, except from slashed zero: https://rsms.me/inter/lab/?size=30&varfont=1&feat-cv05=1&feat-cv07=1&feat-cv08=1

[manuelmeister]

@rsms but I can’t activate character variants in Microsoft Word. You linked to localhost. Is it possible with the interactive fontlab to generate fontfiles with these changes?

[rsms]

Oops! I was running a local lab.

[rsms]

Okay, getting back to this. Checking out MS Word it indeed seems like it only gives you access to some OpenType features like stylistic sets and ligatures. I’ll see if adding a new stylistic set has any significant impact on file size :–)

[rsms]

@manuelmeister Here’s a pre-release build that includes the new stylistic set ss04:
Inter-3.12-text-68b2a66211.zip

[manuelmeister]

Works perfectly! Thank you

[abhiramakella]

Actually, ss04 has exactly that: https://rsms.me/inter/lab/?antialias=default&feat-ss04=1&size=30