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I have bad news for you. Microsoft was going to bring out a new kind of keyboard that would have helped... but it was based on a principle (that of the Optimus Popularis) that was al… (View Post)

I've used Markov Chains to generate filler text for languages where I had a limited dictionary or no exhaustive text samples to pick from — you do need some text though. It will not create grammatica… (View Post)

The fact that "a" and "g" are open at the top isn't automatically fatal to legibility. If the capital "A" at the start was taller, the "Au" at the beginning wo… (View Post)

You could use MainType. It is a font manager that also comes as a free edition. It obviously allows you to manage, tag, and install fonts, but it also allows you to search, select, and copy and paste… (View Post)

Been struggling to assemble a set of test / specimen text samples that cover the set of Unicode scripts. Might be a useful resource for font developers. I'm not looking for an exhaustive character se… (View Post)

@"James Puckett" " rewriting your EULA is what they want you to do. I have no retail fonts that aren't in their system but for our custom fonts and renamed mods I intend to issue an ad… (View Post)

Yes, see the link provided by George. The Codex Argenteus manuscript of Wulfilas' translation of the Bible into Gothic is glorious: written in silver and gold ink on vellum dyed an imperial purple. (… (View Post)

I use wikipedia very often for sample text. The ones I've used are for roses, deer, libraries, salt etc. whatever you're interested in really. General topics of course will have more languages suppor… (View Post)

import os
import argparse
import csv
from fontTools.ttLib import TTFont


parser = argparse.ArgumentParser()
parser.add_argument("dir_path… (View Post)

wikipedia is a great source of course, because it’s available in just about any language/script. simply find out which lemma is covered by every language/script :-) a few suggestions: ‘woman’ ‘man’ ‘… (View Post)