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
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
My Gradient Hatch plugin is finally released! It’s available in the Glyphs Plugin Manager. The Gradient Hatch plugin is built on top of the Hatch Outline filter With this plugin you can
Today I set up my first pull-request for a personal project to be added to the Glyphs Packages repo. Immediately the people over at the Glyphs team discovered a few bugs and
Today I managed to find a way to make the hatch Gradient go by global position in the glyph rather than the amount of hatches. To make this possible I created a
Today I was stuck on improving the Gradient Hatch effect to use global position instead of just making a gradient limited by the height of the shape itself. To fix this I