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DrawBot is a powerful, free application for macOS that invites you to write simple Python scripts to generate two-dimensional graphics. The builtin graphics primitives support rectangles, ovals, (bezier) paths, polygons, text objects and transparency.
🏡https://drawbot.com
🗜️https://github.com/typemytype/drawbot
@frankrolf @letterror @malinneamtzu made a test font with just 65.536 point once, where every point has his own axis.
@marksimonson it could be indeed a pref, but also a feature all code editors have…
Math. @drawBot
How to animate variable fonts using Python and Drawbot - Harbor Type | Fonts made in Brazil

One of the most common uses of variable fonts is to make animations, and you don’t need to buy expensive software to do that.

Harbor Type | Fonts made in Brazil

The classic Hans Hilfiker Swiss Bahnhofsuhr is accomplished!

Make sure you watch all the way around; getting both the second and minute hand movement, and the minute hand’s ‘waggle’ as it moves from one minute to the next, took some doing.

Built with Python in @drawBot

@drawBot This sketch uses a method for 'irregularizing' the lines I've been playing with for a while:

After Sol LeWitt, Wall Drawing #47, 1970 (as shown in Horizontal Composite, 1970).

Built with Python in @drawBot using fontTools, the Python library that keeps on giving

Project for my next intro Python/ @drawBot workshop. The animation timing will be tricky but fun to do.

@fontra Also: DrawBot

brew install --cask drawbot

@drawBot

After François Morellet’s Tirets 0°, 90° (oil on canvas, 1960). Took some doing to build in the gentle imprecision of Morellet’s original; still not perfectly happy with it, but I like it, so.

Built with Python in @drawBot.