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
Today I finally got the GitHub action that builds the spring-boot application, a docker container from the jar and then publishes it on Dockerhub to work. The action came out looking something
Today I finished the first issue in the kubernetes testproject I’m playing around with. The Dockerfile itself was fairly straightforward, so I thought I’d set up a GitHub action to build the
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
While I was working on my first plugin release, I noticed a few scripts by mekkablue that allows me to speed up the development of my decorated Fraktur font without having to