Open-source alternatives to Opentype Feature Bundle

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A book about how to design new typefaces with FontForge

Version control is keeping snapshots of a project at arbitrary points in time. There are multiple options to consider for version control: The simplest approach is just duplicating and dating files, or adding version numbers, but that can get quite messy and confusing.

Code examples from my TypoLabs Berlin 2016 workshop about font pens.

Browse all of the unicodes

Simple, CSS utility classes for advanced typographic features. Falls back gracefully through feature queries. Less than 1.75kB gzipped. —@kennethormandy

Kerning and letterspacing research

OpenType feature reference material

Listing fonts? YEAAHRR.

Falsehoods programmers believe about fonts

Notes and tips for generating a simple variable font on a Mac. These assume you’re already familiar with the UFO format, creating masters that can be interpolated, and have some comfort using Terminal.

Find relevant emoji from text on the command-line :openmouth: :sparkles: :raisedhands: :horse: :boom: :seenoevil:

Twemoji is a library designed to provide consistent emoji rendering across different web browsers and operating systems. It functions by identifying and extracting Unicode emoji sequences from text and replacing them with standardized graphical assets, ensuring that symbols appear identical regardless of the underlying platform. The project distinguishes itself by offering a comprehensive toolkit that combines parsing logic with a library of scalable vector and rasterized image assets. This allows for the programmatic transformation of text into high-quality visual representations, supporting

Many special characters needed for good typography are hard to find, some are not even available on the keyboard at all. This workflow gives you access to these characters and pastes them right into your current application.