I have some projects where I used the Instance Cooker script to generate instances in Variable Font Glyphs files. I ran into trouble with QA because I see that the script creates an ital axis, enters a {0,0} mapping in the AVAR table, and sets an Axis Location Custom Parameter with for an ital axis when using this in the recipe
#Italic:ital
0:Normal*
or
#Italic:ital
1:Italic
It is my understanding that an ital axis should not exist unless the Glyphs file contains actual interpolation between upright and italic lettershapes. However deleting the ital section from the recipe omits the “Italic” particle of in the instance name and does not set the italic flag for them either.
Am I using it wrong?