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Making Software: How to make a font
- gaoqian2580 2mo agoThe concept behind this website is truly innovative.
- Hard_Space 2mo agoPrevious discussion - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43678144 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43678144
- sarreph 2mo agoThat’s related, but not the same article.
- rippeltippel 2mo agoMisleading title. This is an explainer on how fonts are encoded and rendered, not a tutorial on how to actually make a font.
- speerer 2mo agoI suspect the URL and the article title are correct, if you buy the whole chapter - and it's just that we are seeing a preview which gets the grounding down first.
- yorwba 2mo agoIf you want a tutorial, http://designwithfontforge.com http://designwithfontforge.com might be up your alley.
- amelius 2mo agoRead this instead: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Computers_and_Typesetting https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Computers_and_Typesetting
- davidhaggstrom 2mo agoThe home page is beautifully illustrated.
- interleave 2mo agoThank you, that was perfect Sumday-morning reading: Easy to read yet dense information-wise. I learned today: The difference between ttf and otf, what strong and weak characters are, what an Em is and where kerning and leading really come from. My favorite parts: Learning where the magic of ligatures and those tiny postion-changes in moments like "To" come from. Upvoted and favorited!
- lifthrasiir 2mo agoI used to make a hybrid bitmap-vector font called Unison [1] a decade ago and I made it in that way so that I don't have to learn the fine art of (vector) typography. Or at least that I could skip most of it (for example, kerning is still required for proportional fonts, but that doesn't have to be very precise in bitmap fonts). I'm now working on Unison once again after 11 years of time, this time armed with a dedicated font editor called Uniform. I haven't publicly released Uniform in public yet but anyone interested can already download and compile it. [1] https://github.com/lifthrasiir/unison https://github.com/lifthrasiir/unison
- la_oveja 2mo agoi love the mono font used in the tables, anyone know what it is? edit: might be https://www.departuremono.com/ https://www.departuremono.com/
- Waterluvian 2mo agoI don’t think I ever really considered that some fonts could be computationally more demanding than others. I wonder if you could make a font whose characters are so overwhelmingly complex that it can kill performance maliciously? Like certain characters having millions of control points in an otherwise unassuming font.
- Gualdrapo 2mo agoIt seems it's just me, but the body font is too small.
- virajk_31 2mo agothis is really good to read, explained in easy language, well done.