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Published 20 hours ago • verified publisher icon christiannaths

Building/compiling instructions needed

Open davewhitley opened this issue 4 years ago • 3 comments

I couldn't find any instructions for building the font or running the processes needed to compile.

This repo seems to be ignored, and it would be great to have some process instructions so that the open source project can move forward.

davewhitley avatar Aug 11 '20 15:08 davewhitley

Hey @davewhitley! You're right, I've completely ignored this repo for a very long time :( I've recently decided to get it all up to date and working again. I'll be looking for some help, as I am far from an expert on what goes into making a font. If you think you might be able and willing to help me out, lemme know!

christiannaths avatar Aug 12 '20 17:08 christiannaths

That's great! I only have experience in exporting fonts through a GUI editor. I've made a couple of typefaces. I'd love to know how this font is built though. I can try to help in anyway I can! The script redacted font is great and there's not really anything else like it.

davewhitley avatar Aug 13 '20 00:08 davewhitley

Brilliant! I'm gonna spend some time this weekend getting back up to speed. The short version of the story is that I made the paths in Illustrator and created the actual typeface from those using FontForge. This was something like 7+ years ago though, so naturally I'm open to changing that up if better tools exist now.

christiannaths avatar Aug 13 '20 13:08 christiannaths