Mastodawn

#Python #fonttools question: how easy is it to strip all PS hinting from an OTF file? Or are there already some tools out there that can do this?

PixNugget Jun 9, 2025

Need a bold font for headers or logos?
Baku combines strong sans-serif geometry with multicolor fills—ideal for eye-catching posters, packaging, social campaigns, and more. Drop it into Photoshop, Illustrator, or InDesign: uppercase, numbers, punctuation, 7 styles—all set for big impact

#DesignWithBaku #BoldTypography #ColorHeadline #ModernDesign #ShowstoppingGraphics #FontTools

Art Grootfontein May 4, 2025

Click. Switch. Create.
Thanks to OpenType, switching widths is a breeze. Experiment, explore, and give your work a fresh rhythm with every click.

🔗 Try it today—link in bio.
#typefeatures #designrhythm #fonttools #typespire #youaretypography #DesignInspiration #creativeboom

Anirban Mitra Apr 9, 2025

My How-to on creating color variable fonts using Free / Libre tools such as @fontra and #fontTools

https://youtu.be/ccLsHdmHByQ

Creating Color Variable Font using Free open source tools

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Jens Kutílek Apr 7, 2025

I've been trying to figure out what #FontLab 5 does under the title of “Matrix Multiplication”. The #Python docs tell us “Matrix - class to represent planar transformations” and then just say “Matrix(a, b, c, d, e, f) - creates a Matrix and assigns coordinates from float numbers” …
Now those matrices are supposed to represent transformations somehow. My knowledge from #FontTools says that a “Transform” with six values is xx, xy, yx, yy, dx, dy, with the identity transform being 1, 0, 0, 1, 0, 0.

behdad Dec 23, 2024

I posted some notes about what we have been doing this quarter re font technology at https://behdad.org/fonts2024q4 #OpenType #HarfBuzz #FontTools

202Q4 Fonts Hangout

2024Q4 Fonts Hangout Or How I spent my time so far this quarter… Boring Expansion The Boring Expansion set of proposals that I initially circulated back in 2022 (Slides / Video) found their way through the ISO OpenFontFormat standardization process, currently at the CD (Committee Draft) stage, to...

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Edgar Walthert

Dec 12, 2023

Today I had a call with Andreas Nymark @andreasnymark about his Kirby @getkirby foundry plug-in @Fountain.

What I have seen is really promising and exciting! A lot of automated processes thanks to #FontTools implementation. Like subsetting, trial fonts or #woff2 conversion.

You can sign up for his newsletter to stay in the loop: https://fountain.nymarktype.co

Fountain – A shop starter kit for type foundries and designers

n8 Doesn't follow you 🇺🇦Sep 19, 2023

I'm 100% focused on looking for a full-time job, but separately I sorta also wish I could get a funded project where I just write complete documentation for #FontTools & several key related library modules until they're all done. Haven't found a way to put that together, though.

Levi Schuck Jan 29, 2023

Finally wrote up a small guide on converting TTF fonts to WOFF2 for the web. A year ago I was trying to make some ASCII diagrams look nice, but the *web* font I used did not come with those boxy characters! Which made for an ugly look.

Turns out the actual TTF _had_ those characters. By redoing the font, I was able to make it look nice and meet my expectations, all the while shrinking it in other places for a small asset download.

This method is useful for anyone who wants to port a TTF to WOFF2 for their personal or professional web development.

Some tags: #webdev #css #fonts #woff2 #ttf #fonttools #pyftsubset

https://levischuck.com/blog/2023-01-web-fonts