Foldit Font Project

Foldit is a variable-gradient COLRv1 font which uses gradients to play with dimension and sense of space. Styles run along weight and width axes with two masters: Thin Condensed and Extrabold Expanded. First version is available in GF Latin Plus character set. Concept of this design was, as the name suggest, based on a folded paper strip.

Project Author

Sophia Tai (@SophiaTypeLove) is an independent typeface designer. She is an alumna of the MA Typeface Design course at University of Reading and was featured on the Malee 2021 Women of Typographic Excellence list.

Links: website | github | instagram | twitter | twitch

Project Contributors

• Viviana Monsalve (PM & dev support) | github
• Khaled Kosny (COLRv1 dev support) | github
• Cosimo Lupo (FontTools) | github
• Simon Cozens (dev support) | github
• Linh Nguyen (Vietnamese diacritics advice) | github
• Just van Rossum (FontGoggles) | github
• Laurence Penney (Samsa) | github
• Yanone (general support) | github
• Marc Foley (dev) | github

Changelog

When you update your font (new version or new release), please report all notable changes here, with a date. Font Versioning is based on semver.

26 August 2022. Version 1.000

• First release. Only the variable font is working correctly.

Make a contribution

(Last updated: 26 August 2022)

Guide for making your contribution to this project:

1. If you use Glyphs font editing software, use Glyphs3 or above. These are the only versions which support COLRv1 gradients. Add your contribution in Foldit-origin.glyphs source file to keep an editable version.
2. For COLRv1 feature make sure you only have native Color layer type selected and no others.
3. Make a copy of the origin source file and name this Foldit.glyphs – place file in glyphs-decomposed folder, replace any existing file.
4. In Foldit.glyphs file, decompose all elements on all masters and clear background on all layers (for which you can use Toshi Omagari's script).
5. Follow instructions for automatically building font files in the "Building"section below.
6. You can also generate font files locally using gftools – install python and other dependencies from requirements.txt, create a virtual environment (venv) and enter command gftools builder config.yaml

Building

(This was copied from Unified Font Repository template.)

Fonts are built automatically by GitHub Actions - take a look in the "Actions" tab for the latest build.

If you want to build fonts manually on your own computer:

• make build will produce font files.
• make test will run FontBakery's quality assurance tests.
• make proof will generate HTML proof files. The proof files and QA tests are also available automatically via GitHub Actions - look at https://yourname.github.io/your-font-repository-name.

Repository Layout

This font repository structure is inspired by Unified Font Repository v0.3, modified for the Google Fonts workflow.

License

This Font Software is licensed under the SIL Open Font License, Version 1.1. This license is copied below, and is also available with a FAQ at https://scripts.sil.org/OFL