Get named instances from fvar? about lib-font HOT 11 CLOSED

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alright, instance records added. No convenience functions, but then it doesn't really need it, just tap into myfont.opentype.tables.fvar.instances, e.g. to get the names, map the subfamilyNameID into the name table:

const { fvar, name } = myFont.opentype.tables;
const instanceNames = fvar.instances.map(instance =>
    name.get(instance.subfamilyNameID)
);

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you mean like getSupportedAxes() and getAxis(name), or something else?

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That'd get me the axes, but I mean named instances that point to predefined axes settings.

Like the dropdown here:

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As Adam mentions, the axis record has an ID into the name table that should let you look it up pretty easily:

const tables = myFont.opentype.tables;
const axis = tables.fvar.getAxis(`wdth`);
const fullName = tables.name.get(axis.axisNameID)

If it would drastically simplify your work, I could add a function to fvar, or to variation axis records, that fetches that full name automatically, but I'm not sure it's complex enough to warrant a dedicated function (that said, this probably falls in the discussion around how much "convenience" to offer on top of the straight up parsed data)

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But that gives me axis names, that's a problem indeed solved. I'm looking for named instances, the predefined styles that set axes to specific values. I'm not seeing that in the current fvar object, or am I missing something obvious?

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haha, yeah I think I stopped when it turned into "check flags to figure out how to parse the rest" and moved on to more fun stuff. I've unchecked fvar in #45

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🙏 Supermegathanks!! 💖

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Maybe Pomax defines "lazy" differently: I'll be adding code when people ask for it, but not before :) That's the good kind of lazy, I'd say ;)

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it's the "doing the actual programming" version of lazy loading =D

But on a less joking note, that's kind of true: I started the rewrite for some folks who needed a simple opentype lib, and while adding tables has turned out to be easier than expected, stuff that people actually needed still got done first, with everything that has no one actually asking for it getting done "whenever I feel like it".

The rewrite's still young, so for now that's still "when I have some dead moments during the day" =)

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