Werner Lemberg’s auto-instructing tool ‘ttfautohint’ is nearing it’s 0.8 release.Ttfautohint can now be run via a GUI and the user can conrol at which ppm’s hinting instructions are applied and at which ppm’s points are snapped to alignment zones. These functions give greater control over instructing screen fonts but also enables much smaller font sizes [...]

Oxygen is undergoing some tweaking. Character shape details are being fine-tuned as the letterspacing is structured to give a font that needs as little kerning as possible to function well as a desktop/UI font. Release 0.2 should be ready very soon. At that point a version of the Regular weight will be made available from [...]