Hey guys!
I'm thinking on returning to typography once again (it must be the third time). I've been concentrating myself in code essentially for the past years and I think I will continue with it but every time I come around my type books, my "still to finish" work or whenever I receive some money from MyFonts on one of the fonts I have that I wouldn't use I think: "Should I get back?"
So, as somewhat a transition, "what if I started by doing some scripts that would help me and other developers?"
I'm a pretty good developer so I don't think this would be that hard.
Are you finding a lack in that subject? Something you would like to see done?
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To be straight, I also don't think RoboFont is that interesting. There is Glyphs, being in Python should be cross platform and... I don't find the appeal, specially with the price in mind. Sorry.
And Mark, you can quickly create a PDF just by printing from the Testing Page.
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This is a very rough concept prototype of a new kerning tool that will allow people to kern in the context of real words. It can show you sample kerned and unkerned words for each individual font, and ideally it will update as you kern new pairs.
It's just a prototype and using it now is a pain in the ass as you need to do a lot of steps, so I would love to have someone turn it it to a real app
https://github.com/impallari/Contextual-Kerning-Tool
Sure, but I have to remember to do it ahead of time.
That still needs to be setup without an actual need but let me tell you that is pretty interesting and most of the idea I was talking about.
Well that would be part of the idea I was telling regarding templating and stuff...
That seems interesting! Since I'm a web dev this makes sense for me. So many times I'm just looking for latin for websites that will only have english for example.
This seemed interesting to me but now that I think about it... Isn't this illegal without the consent of the type designer? What I'm thinking now is... Is there any space for a MyFonts kind of clone but directed to webfonts? That way one could "enforce" the type designer to allow that subset and I as a developer would be more interested in such thing. Do you think there is any space for another font shop?
Probably Font Squirrel is closest to what you describe, but there is catalog, distribution, web and desktop as well as subsetting (as part of webfont generation) all in one.
http://typedrawers.com/discussion/556/webfont-services-js-vs-css
Too many laying around and too much hassle :P I'll just draw type instead eheheh
Font Squirrel can also be used to generate webfonts with commercial fonts if the license allows it. Some commercial font producers even recommend this instead of providing the webfonts themselves.