Type testing site
Nick Cooke
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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.
It used to be here: https://www.musictypefoundry.com/text-font-testing/ and the same thing was also on another site.
Thanks.
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Hi Nick, I think this might be the one:2
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That's the one! Many thanks Paulo.0
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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.
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Hi Pablo. Thanks. Are you going to Paris?0
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Who knows... maybe0
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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.
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Thanks Justing!
Btw: Does anyone has free hosting for me? hahaha0 -
Thanks to you all for these useful links (and work!)0
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There is one new link with an updated Cyrillic kern section.2
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PabloImpallari said:Thanks Justing!
Btw: Does anyone has free hosting for me? hahaha
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It should just be transformed into e.g. a Jekyll site that is forever-hosted on github pages
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But the original had PHP code. @Lasse Fister made one with only js0
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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?0
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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_specimenEspecially the last commit in there:"[Impallari Font Testig Page] port WIP" https://github.com/graphicore/specimenTools/commit/bce38e7b9c45c77788ce5730b165f7918567310aI 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
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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?
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.1
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