Today, I found myself ensnared in the classic trap of dedicating an entire day to automate a task that, in all honesty, could’ve been wrapped up in five measly minutes. It’s like
Today I worked on designing my font portfolio ThorType using Figma. I replaced all the colours of the previous colour with variables so I could easily switch between palettes and picked some
Today I’ve been working on improving the ThorType website and hopefully adding a menu at the bottom instead of the haphazardly placed icons for testing the font and viewing the list of
During the past few days I’ve compared Apache PDFBox/FontBox with the Python FontTools library. Because I found that the FontTools-library was a lot better at extracting information about fonts, I’ve worked to
In the thortypetools project I’ve been experimenting with different font libraries for extracting glyphs and other information about a font so I can programatically create proofs, previews, JSON-documents and other useful files
The past few days I’ve been looking into tooling for the ThorType website. The project is available here. One such project is a Swing GUI application where I use Apache FontBox/PDFBox to
Today I put some finishing touches on the character table on ThorType. The menu needs improving, I should move it to the bottom of the screen or somewhere I can set up
Lately I’ve been working on improving my font portfolio website ThorType. It’s a Next.JS project that automatically deploys using a GitHub action to both my regular server and Fleek so my site
A few years ago I bought an old iMac from 2011. From experience I’ve found that these machines are very practical as secondary computers as they’re fast enough for most computer applications
