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Replacing Java FontBox with Python’s FontTools

Posted onMarch 20, 2024March 20, 2024

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

PHP font library

Posted onMarch 15, 2024March 15, 2024

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

Font Reflection

Posted onMarch 13, 2024March 13, 2024

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

Character Table works

Posted onMarch 11, 2024March 11, 2024

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

Fraktur Workflow

Posted onFebruary 19, 2024February 23, 2024

Today I thought I’d experiment a bit with screen recording the process of designing the Fraktur Colorfont. I discovered earlier that making the color layers in addition to the effect itself became

Internationalisation

Posted onFebruary 8, 2024February 8, 2024

Yesterday I set up tclang, a separate repository for handling Internationalisation for other projects. I’ve come across more standardised i18n-tools, but for this I’d rather just use a translation service API and

TegnZ

Posted onJuly 9, 2022July 9, 2022

Here’s a plugin I made for testing fonts online.

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