Shakespeare Serif - an experimental font based on the First Folio

I've built a new font! Thoughts and feedback on my approach very welcome. #font #woff2 #python

https://shkspr.mobi/blog/2023/07/shakespeare-serif-a-new-font-based-on-the-first-folio/

Shakespeare Serif - an experimental font based on the First Folio

Disclaimer! Work In Progress! See source code. I recently read this wonderful blog post about using 17th Century Dutch fonts on the web. And, because I'm an idiot, I decided to try and build something similar using Shakespeare's first folio as a template. Now, before setting off on a journey, it is worth seeing if anyone else has tried this before. I found David Pustansky's First Folio Font. There's not much info about it, other than it's based on the 1623 folio. It's a nice font, but missing …

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Oh, I love everything about this project so much! It looks lovely!

It also looks mighty useful for making handouts for TTRPG campaigns ahaha.

Was the letter-recognition Python codeblock of your own making?

Cheers. The code was cobbled together by me from various random tutorials and things I had laying around.