https://blog.adafruit.com/2026/03/09/disassemble-z80-instructions-by-changing-the-font/

#Z80 #Assembly #FontEngineering

All this chat about Unicode and glyph nice-names reminded me of an earlier thought about glyph names that are not in AGLFN. For a newly encoded glyph like U+1F777 VESTA FORM TWO you _could_ use the name /u1F777.VestaFormTwo as the production name, which incorporates the "nice name" as a suffix in the production name (which the PDF glyph name to unicode algorithm will strip out, to get the correct unicode). In fact you could also use it as the nice name (hmm).

It would mean that when poking around with the Actual Shipped Font, i would have another clue to remind me what glyph /u1F777 is.

[edit: AGLFN defines nice names for certain glyphs, e.g. /carriagereturn is U+21B5, but others get names based purely on their unicode, like /u1F777]

#FontEngineering #AGLFN

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We’re looking for an early career or mid career researcher with a strong background in teaching and design practice and experience delivering apps with modern web platform or game engine technology. We’d also love to hear from researchers with deep expertise in type design and font engineering; information architecture and data visualisation; or similar niches adjacent to product design who might thrive in our unique interdisciplinary context.

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One-Week Extension for Call for Proposals!

The deadline for ATypI 2026 proposals is now extended to 3 September 2025.

Join us in Stanford (May) and Sharjah (October). We welcome talks, workshops, research, student projects, and experimental work.

Submit now!
https://atypi.org/2025/07/23/atypi-2026-call-for-proposals-is-open/

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Ugh, so, it's finally happened. ASCIIbetical order of shell globbing (*.thing) which is documented in the Bell System Technical Journal vol 57 (1978) has now changed in macOS (it is case insensitive and varies with the environment variables). It breaks my font build.

You may say don't rely on shell glob ordering, i say don't change things that have been that way for 50 years.

#FontEngineering

Two weeks left for the #ATypI2026 Call for Proposals!

Share your stories at ATypI 2026 in Stanford (May) and Sharjah (October). We’re seeking talks, workshops, research, student projects, and experiments that push the boundaries of typography.

#Multiscript. Cross-cultural. Purpose-driven.

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LAST CHANCE to join @rosaliewagner 's workshop on Font Production!

2 sessions, starting from THIS Saturday, to learn the basics of font production / font engineering!

Info & ticket at https://wordsoftype.com/

#ad #workshop #fonts #fontengineering #fontproduction #typeface #typedesign #export

STARTING THIS WEEK

Learn the basics of font production with @rosaliewagner
Her lecture is THIS SATURDAY, so don't miss it! And even if you can't attend to the live session, you can still book your ticket and you'll get to watch the recording!

And, her 2-sessions workshop starts on the next Saturday. If you want to learn and practise with her guidance, THIS IS IT.

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So font engineers, how is it to add new GSUB rules using Python and fontTools?

My current case is that i have a binary TTF file and i want to create some new GSUB rules, _in addition_ to the ones that it already has.

#FontEngineering

Please boost

[edit: prompted by Simon i am using his fontFeatures which seems to be working—after i patched it ;)]