reference table or find-a-font

[pvinis]

we could classify the fonts here by their properties, so if i want to check out a new font, i could click what kind of a i want, and 0, etc. or i could click "tall", or "more square", and i can get the total list reduced to the fonts with those attributes.

[chrissimpkins]

I have been giving some consideration to this recently and have not come up with a good approach yet. There may be a way to display metrics in some way. Let me think about it a bit.

[chrissimpkins]

We're somewhat limited in the Github markdown files with filtering/sorting on properties like you suggest so that would require a separate web application. Thoughts about another approach that would not require us to build a separate site?

[tomByrer]

• serif (tail) & sans-serif
• powerline built-in
• rounded ? ; haven't seen "square"
• x-ratio = 70% could sort out fonts with taller non-caps
• ligatures flag for programming combos (like !=)
• weights & oblique / italics

For characters with character like "ag0m" etc, I'd think the character specimens should be enough for now. Perhaps they could be moved to the top line of one for easy scanning. Filtering would take a separate website.

[chrissimpkins]

@tomByrer :+1:

[chrissimpkins]

We are beginning to address this issue with data tables in the font directories. I just added vertical metrics tables to each directory that includes metrics involved in line spacing. This allows you to compare across different typefaces. We also released a new tool that allows you to modify the line spacing in any font if you'd like to attempt to make it more similar to spacing that you like from another face. The tables in this repo can be used for reference as you make changes. https://github.com/source-foundry/font-line