Despite feeling conflicted in a few ways about it, I (José) have been using LLMs to help with coding since May or June of last year. I recently went into a bit of a coding binge with LLM support, and one of the results is this, a Glyphs plugin called Interpol (https://github.com/Dogray-Type-Foundry/Interpol).

It's basically a plugin to preview interpolations, with a a couple of different way to navigate through the design space. The interpolations can be shown, again, in a few different ways, some which I haven't seen used in any other similar plugins. It can also highlight points that are kinking, and by how much, and tries to provide a way to help resolve those kinks.

We did use a good amount of additional Javascript to add some of the features we wanted. Most of them are in support of a better user experience, like filtering the list of families in the Fontdue testers.

But some of them were more about having fun, like the little outline editor in the about page. It’s meant to be a bit of a joke, like “Here, try editing this outline, see how easy or difficult you find it to draw a letter”.

We started with a template to get a good set of bones for the structure of the pages, not from a design perspective but from an HTML and CSS perspective. That helped a lot.

The thing is, if you choose relatively well constructed template, you can do almost any design you can think of on top of it.

We’ve been wanting to talk about our website for a while, in case our experience might help others in the type community who are considering having their own website and store.

We are quite proud of it because we did it all ourselves using Webflow for the design and managing the database, and Fontdue for the shop experience, type testers and character grid.

All in all, it was relatively easy despite the fact that neither of us had experience building a website of this scope.

Hi there from @Sahar and @jmsole. We’re partners at Dogray, a London-based type foundry—thrilled to be launching with four new Arabic & Latin font families.

Check out our website, https://www.dogray.xyz/