Variable Fonts

[davelab6]

I would love to see variable fonts support. It's in freetype and harfbuzz, and all major browsers.

[davelab6]

If anyone is interested in being paid to work on this contact me directly :)

[albfan]

Hi @davelab6 See we accept donations https://www.patreon.com/akiraux and surely we will add that feature in future, but right now it is not in our roadmap, which you can see here:

https://github.com/akiraux/Akira/milestones

FYI I don't think there's much to develop here, See goocanvas demo: https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/goocanvas/blob/master/demo/demo.c#L1217.

Just a property panel for items where you can set the font (from a combo with all the available fonts on your system). Maybe too an option to embedded the font in our akira file format so you do not depend on host to see it correctly if it is not installed on host.

@Alecaddd do we have any general property panel in mind?

[Alecaddd]

Thank you so much for your offer.
As Alberto said, you can donate through Patreon which will help fund the entire project and keep the development running.

Regarding Rich Text Widget, we're not planning to implement it for the first release, but it's definitely a feature we will have before the end of the beta cycle.

This is a rough UI prototype I did for the Fonts Panel: