| # add the line below to your ~/.bash_profile or ~/.profile | |
| alias deets="printf \"<details>\n<summary><b><!-------->Dropdown title<!--------></b> (Click to expand)</summary>\n\n<!-------->\nDropdown details\n<!-------->\n\n</details>\" | pbcopy && echo \"github-ready <details> element copied to clipboard\"" |
| # it’s easy to access a letter’s contours through a BezierPath object: | |
| bp = BezierPath() | |
| bp.text( | |
| 's', | |
| font='.SFNSDisplayCondensed-Black', | |
| fontSize=1200) | |
| # Fill the letter, and offset the whole canvas so it sits in the middle. | |
| fill(1, 1, 0) | |
| letter_width = bp.bounds()[-2] - bp.bounds()[0] |
| """ | |
| Make cubes and towers in Minecraft, with Python. | |
| Really fun way to introduce a kid to Python (or yourself to Minecraft, as I've learned). | |
| Setup instructions for Minecraft + macOS + Python: https://gist.github.com/noahcoad/fc9d3984a5d4d61648269c0a9477c622 | |
| Additional setup: | |
| - Activate correct Java version: `export JAVA_HOME=`/usr/libexec/java_home -v 11.0.5`` | |
| - Activate spigot `cd spigot; java -jar spigot.jar` |
This is a set of Python I use many times I wish to make an animation or multipage doc with Drawbot, but code in my preferred editor (currently, VS Code) rather than in the Drawbot app.
First, install DrawBot as a module:
pip install git+https://github.com/typemytype/drawbot
| # MM2SpaceCenter by CJ Dunn, 2019, and licensed under the MIT license. Thanks to Tal Leming, Andy Clymer, David Jonathan Ross, Jackson Cavanaugh, Nina Stössinger for help and inspiration with this script | |
| # #when pair changes: get pair and set to space center | |
| #you must have a UFO open and have MetricsMachine open | |
| import sys, os | |
| import random | |
| from mojo.UI import CurrentSpaceCenter, OpenSpaceCenter |
Unicodes can either be integers (“A” is 65, “B” is 66, etc) or hex (“A” is 0x41, “B” is 0x42, etc).
When scripting with RoboFont or FontTools, a hard thing at first is that different styles come up in different contexts. For example, integers will often be used in scripts, but hex values are shown in UIs and in the TTX output of cmap (the table that maps unicode values to glyphs). So, it's helpful to know how to go between them to do different types of work.
To go from a string to an unicode integer, you can use ord(), like:
>>> ord("A")
| """ | |
| From | |
| https://github.com/arrowtype/recursive/blob/eb821735e66402b4b485ce97ed32b09a8555341e/src/build-scripts/make-release/compute-remaining-unicodes-in-font.py | |
| The FontTools Subsetter expects unicode ranges for *inclusion*, but | |
| often you just know which ranges you want to *exclude* from a font subset. | |
| So, this script will accept a font, then report what Unicode values | |
| it includes *beyond* given Unicode ranges. |
| """ | |
| Get the mark color of currently-selected glyphs and change the | |
| opacity of it in the current font. | |
| Useful for changing the Font View to a "dark theme," where | |
| the wrong mark opacity can suddenly disrupt a system of colors. | |
| """ | |
| f = CurrentFont() |
| """ | |
| Toggle a dark mode in RoboFont. | |
| For a dark mode in the Glyph Edit view, install Theme Editor: | |
| https://github.com/connordavenport/Theme-Manager | |
| ...and import the "Dark Connor" theme from this Gist | |
| (https://gist.github.com/arrowtype/ce0cee426f47c2fe7e82aa07d1e0a450). | |
| Also offers to edit the markColor of glyphs with a high opacity in their markColor, | |
| which will disrupt the visual effect of a dark mode on the Font View. However, |
So, you’re interested in type design, but you are still figuring out how & where to start or get to the next step. This post is a non-exhaustive attempt to share an overview of how you might learn some basics, how you can get started with font editing software, and where you might consider growing your skills after that. It reflects my bias and (some of) my personal experience, and it completely skips important topics like formal education, calligraphy and sketching, bezier drawing tips, and more.
This started as an email listing my favorite RoboFont extensions, and then I thought that it would be worth sharing publicly, and then I added more and it turned into a bigger post. In the future, I hope to bring it onto a proper blog as a collection of separate, more-focused topics.