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Baku combines strong sans-serif geometry with multicolor fills—ideal for eye-catching posters, packaging, social campaigns, and more. Drop it into Photoshop, Illustrator, or InDesign: uppercase, numbers, punctuation, 7 styles—all set for big impact
#DesignWithBaku #BoldTypography #ColorHeadline #ModernDesign #ShowstoppingGraphics #FontTools
Click. Switch. Create.
Thanks to OpenType, switching widths is a breeze. Experiment, explore, and give your work a fresh rhythm with every click.
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#typefeatures #designrhythm #fonttools #typespire #youaretypography #DesignInspiration #creativeboom
My How-to on creating color variable fonts using Free / Libre tools such as @fontra and #fontTools
I've been trying to figure out what #FontLab 5 does under the title of “Matrix Multiplication”. The #Python docs tell us “Matrix - class to represent planar transformations” and then just say “Matrix(a, b, c, d, e, f) - creates a Matrix and assigns coordinates from float numbers” …
Now those matrices are supposed to represent transformations somehow. My knowledge from #FontTools says that a “Transform” with six values is xx, xy, yx, yy, dx, dy, with the identity transform being 1, 0, 0, 1, 0, 0.
I posted some notes about what we have been doing this quarter re font technology at https://behdad.org/fonts2024q4 #OpenType #HarfBuzz #FontTools
Today I had a call with Andreas Nymark @andreasnymark about his Kirby @getkirby foundry plug-in @Fountain.
What I have seen is really promising and exciting! A lot of automated processes thanks to #FontTools implementation. Like subsetting, trial fonts or #woff2 conversion.
You can sign up for his newsletter to stay in the loop: https://fountain.nymarktype.co
I'm 100% focused on looking for a full-time job, but separately I sorta also wish I could get a funded project where I just write complete documentation for #FontTools & several key related library modules until they're all done. Haven't found a way to put that together, though.
Finally wrote up a small guide on converting TTF fonts to WOFF2 for the web. A year ago I was trying to make some ASCII diagrams look nice, but the *web* font I used did not come with those boxy characters! Which made for an ugly look.
Turns out the actual TTF _had_ those characters. By redoing the font, I was able to make it look nice and meet my expectations, all the while shrinking it in other places for a small asset download.
This method is useful for anyone who wants to port a TTF to WOFF2 for their personal or professional web development.
Some tags: #webdev #css #fonts #woff2 #ttf #fonttools #pyftsubset
vfbLib can now be installed via pip from pypi: https://pypi.org/project/vfbLib/
#Python #FontTools
And another update to jkUnicode, this time with more visible changes!
· Update CLDR to version 42
· Update Unicode data to version 15
· Add option -b to output BCP47 language tags instead of names
In the field of #typography and #type #technology, a publication of June 14 sparks the fire.
Below my attempt to list a chronology of subjectively chosen elements linked to it.
http://pads.osp.kitchen/p/type-blm
With #Alphabettes #blm #diversity #non-latin #scripts @kupfers @bb #HrantPapazian #Jean-FrancoisPorchez #JohnHudson #BehdadEsfahbod #harfbuzz #abuse #racism #colonialism #Adobe #SairusPatel #CFF2 #Microsoft #PeterConstable #svg #OpenType #Monotype #UFO #JuanVillanueva #tdc #TypeDirectorClub #BobbyCMartinJr. #EmmanuelBesse #Underware #NadineChahine #TanyaGeorge #Font and #Text #w3c #shaping #layout #encoding #formats #fonttools #FrederickBrennan #FontForge #StrokedFonts #StrokeFonts #Google #Facebook #Iran #ISO #OFF #specifications #specs #DaveCrossland #JamesClark #standard #LiangHai #AdamTwardoch #SimonCozens #VladLevantovsky #EricMuller and others.
