I have created a ‘sortsmill’ organization on Github so I could fork this project I got driven out of years ago, by bullying: https://github.com/sortsmill/fontforge
If I had stayed in the project, it would have had multilanguage interfaces, not just Python. I mean every language under the sun. I had already made the basic changes in my own stuff.
As it stands, I might do it again and submit the changes. But machines are fast now. More likely I will make a Python-Ada shim for it.
Thank you for this app!
I was able to get my handwritten font in a few attempts. I am missing a finer felt tip pen, but I will get one.
I had some issue in getting the lowercase g, p, q with correct baseline, and in the end I had to use #fontforge to adjust them.
I also noticed that accentded "i" automatically gets an accent over the dot and not in place of. Also the € sign is missing, while it's quite common for europeans.
Ligatures seems to be not working correctly. If I activate them I get mixed uppercase and lowercase, even if I correctly selected the first line uppercase and the second and third lowercase. It looks like pre-defined ligatures are not optimal. Probably they are fine for typography, but for handwriting you really need another set. Then one should adapt to their writing.
Overall it was a nice experience, I recommend it and I hope you will continue working on it!
I was concerned that small size would render the font illegible, but I was wrong. It is more legible that certain actual fonts.
#TIL there are efforts to port #FontForge to #GTK3 .
If you have skills in that area, please help out. FontForge's custom UI kit is... ancient, 25 years old.
A #GTK interface could not only modernize the look, but also make it easier to implement a modular design and personalize the interface for specific uses.
In a continuing flurry of boring #FontForge news, I ported two more dialogs to GTK: bitmap strikes and problem detector.
This boosts the number of modernized UI dialogs to 3 out of ~150. That's 2%, yay! 💪
Fredrick Brennan, one of FontForge chief maintainers and a board member, passed away on January 10 at the age of 31.
I didn't work together with him, as I became involved with FontForge a few years after he moved on to develop MFEK. Nevertheless his essay "Why MFEK" (https://github.com/MFEK/docs/blob/master/doc/Why.md) deeply influenced me. In fact it was Fredrick's gloomy assessment of the state of FontForge that brought me on the crusade to prove him wrong.
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The first real FontForge plugin has landed! Just five years after the introduction of plugin framework, the Variable Font Plugin by @[email protected] is here. Grab your free copy at https://pypi.org/project/fontforge-variable-font/
Today's FontForge shout-out 📢 goes to Skef, one of the long-term maintainers. He did an enormous amount of work to clean up the codebase for C++ compatibility and made the Python module importable by the standard Windows Python installation.
No screenshots today, but trust me, it was a really huge project.
https://github.com/fontforge/fontforge/pull/5750
Barry Schwartz 🫖
TiTiNoNero 
Dobody 🇺🇦🍉
Max Iorsh
J.A. Machete