Type testing site

Nick Cooke

Does anyone know where the type testing site for kerning pairs in a few different languages is located?
It used to be here: https://www.musictypefoundry.com/text-font-testing/ and the same thing was also on another site.
Thanks.

Paulo Goode

Hi Nick, I think this might be the one:

http://www.cyreal.org/Font-Testing-Page/index.php

Nick Cooke

That's the one! Many thanks Paulo.

PabloImpallari

Hi Nick

The source files are here:
https://github.com/impallari/Font-Testing-Page

If you want to use it in your own web hosting, it's super easy!
Just upload it into any folder, and thats it! Not configuration required.

Nick Cooke

Hi Pablo. Thanks. Are you going to Paris?

PabloImpallari

Who knows... maybe

Justin Penner

Since the original url at cyreal.org is not always online, I collected a list of mirrors a while back to post on my Type Design Resources page.

• http://www.cyreal.org/Font-Testing-Page/
  
• https://musictypefoundry.com/text-font-testing/
  
• http://www.rosaliewagner.com/font-testing/
• http://www.idc.iitb.ac.in/~girish/test/
  
• https://oketz.com/testing/
  
• https://snapbuilder.com/tools/font_testing_page/

PabloImpallari

Thanks Justing!
Btw: Does anyone has free hosting for me? hahaha 

Yves Michel

Thanks to you all for these useful links (and work!)

Stefan Peev

There is one new link with an updated Cyrillic kern section.

Justin Penner

PabloImpallari said:

Thanks Justing!
Btw: Does anyone has free hosting for me? hahaha 

There are many companies these days that will host static websites for free. I use Netlify because it integrates nicely with Github. Whenever I update the source repo for my site, Netlify pulls the update and runs a build command to update the live site. Some other free options I looked at include Render, Cloudflare, Vercel, and Github Pages.

Johannes Neumeier

It should just be transformed into e.g. a Jekyll site that is forever-hosted on github pages

Dave Crossland

But the original had PHP code. @Lasse Fister made one with only js

Johannes Neumeier

Haven't but glanced at the source code, but since the site states it does the preview in the browser I imagine the PHP is just for easier page templating of the various script pages. Jekyll can do the same statically and hosted for free on github, in the same spot that content additions could be submitted.

Do you mean Lasse's specimen generator, or a clone of Pablo's site? Link?

Lasse Fister

Johannes Neumeier said:

Do you mean Lasse's specimen generator, or a clone of Pablo's site? Link?

@Johannes Neumeier I'm afraid both. It grew some years ago in a branch when I had some time at my hand. That branch also did another thing, local live updates when fonts change on disk with websockets. https://github.com/graphicore/specimenTools/tree/live_specimen I just tried to run it but the project organization is outdated/not good and I don't remember how. Thus for now we can look at the changes in that branch. https://github.com/graphicore/specimenTools/compare/master...live_specimen

Especially the last commit in there:

"[Impallari Font Testig Page] port WIP" https://github.com/graphicore/specimenTools/commit/bce38e7b9c45c77788ce5730b165f7918567310a

I remember I used Mustache.js and then something similar to recreate some of the more complex original testing pages but wasn't too happy with it overall. There are not pushed commits on some out of order laptop of mine ...

If there's interest I will find it.

UPDATE: There's a way to get it running. But all in all it would be a day or two to create a current state up-to-date and accessible evaluation version. Then another week or two to bring it into a form that could be developed further. This would likely be a hard fork from the specimenTools, or at least a new version that is not backwards compatible. I'd hard-copy all bower dependencies and remove requirejs in favor of Javascript-Modules.

Get it running:

$ git clone git@github.com:graphicore/specimenTools.git

$ cd specimenTools

$ git checkout live_specimen

$ npm install bower

$ node_modules/bower/bin/bower install

$ ln -s text lib/bower_components/requirejs-text

$ cd util/changes_server

$ npm install

$ cd ../..

$ node util/changes_server/server.js  examples/live/ assets/fonts/

If you feel adventurous you can play around with util/samples_switcher/samples_switcher

PabloImpallari

Johannes Neumeier said:

Haven't but glanced at the source code, but since the site states it does the preview in the browser I imagine the PHP is just for easier page templating of the various script pages. Jekyll can do the same statically and hosted for free on github, in the same spot that content additions could be submitted.

Do you mean Lasse's specimen generator, or a clone of Pablo's site? Link?

Its mostly html css  and Js. Php is only used for the "Tools" section
Php is easy for me, so I can changes or implements new tools in seconds.

Other thin I do is to REJECT a loooooot of suggestion of new content...
Part of the Charm of the tool is that is FUN to use...
To keep it fun, it needs to be fast and easy. And if I had accepted every suggestion it wouldn't be fast any more.. since no one want to check 200 taps of content.
Keep that in mind whoever will be in charge of maintaining the port.