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Finding lots of interesting and useful ways of viewing the font in FintLab8. I can see how, if I worked with a construction plan and an advance design plan, I could efficiently produce a typeface with clear system - from which to tweak... I am loving it.

Currently tweaking an ill-planned uppercase with Variable font wieght and psz axis in mind - but no clear plan to achieve them. Having regular and bold well designed feels like a good starting point.
#FontLab
#Goobyfont

Spent months wrestling AFDKO/.fea into doing Tengwar transliteration. Turns out there's a reason it fights back: built in-house at Adobe for Adobe's own workflows, only open-sourced in 2014, and still tied to its Euro-centric origins — great for Latin, thin support for complex/non-Latin scripts. So it's not just me. The tool genuinely wasn't built for what I'm asking of it. 😅 #Tengwar #TypeDesign #FontLab

We've released v0.11 of vfbLib!
What began as a reverse engineering project in 2022 now has had a kind of official blessing from Yuri Yarmola of FontLab, who generously let me have a look at his original VFB code.
I am very grateful, for this has shed light on some intricacies of the format I would probably never have figured out on my own.
https://pypi.org/project/vfbLib/
https://github.com/LucasFonts/vfbLib/releases/tag/v0.11.0
#fonts #FontLab5Forever #FontLab #Python

We've released v0.11 of vfbLib!
What began as a reverse engineering project in 2022 now has had a kind of official blessing from Yuri Yarmola of FontLab, who generously let me have a look at his original VFB code.
I am very grateful, for this has shed light on some intricacies of the format I would probably never have figured out on my own.
https://pypi.org/project/vfbLib/
https://github.com/LucasFonts/vfbLib/releases/tag/v0.11.0
#fonts #FontLab5Forever #FontLab #Python

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'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.

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A new release of vfbLib is online, v0.5.2, with sensational new features, such as:
- pen protocol support (drawPoints()/getPointPen())
- TrueType conversion with cu2qu, even for multiple masters
- Build UFOs in memory
- Complete revamp of the VFB reader code
- FontLab 3 support

Check out the release notes: https://github.com/LucasFonts/vfbLib/releases/tag/v0.5.2
Install via pip: https://pypi.org/project/vfbLib/
#Python #Fonts #Coding #FontLab #VFB

Pour mettre ça en pratique, des tutos-screencasts #peertube pour qunifier des fontes avec #FontForge, #Glyphs et bientôt #FontLab.
https://typotheque.genderfluid.space/quni.html#comment-qunifier