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@scruss posted their cool font that Mozilla showed off on their site: https://mltshp.com/p/1RJ8A

Which led to a bigger font discussion with @heyitsal

So thought I'd show what I've been working on.

I haven't built a font since the Macromedia Fontagrapher days but always wanted to get back into type design. Finally hunkered down and started learning Fontra which is a fairly new FOSS option for font design. Worth giving it a shot if you have an itch to make a font! https://fontra.xyz/
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homerj Yesterday
(do we have a fonts shake?)
ba pro Yesterday
@homerj https://mltshp.com/typography
1f2frfbf pro Yesterday
Fontagrapher? There's a name I haven't heard in a while... A buggy, inelegant weapon of a less-enlightened time. I'll look into this Fontra.
wjcstp pro Yesterday
I played around with Fontographer quite a bit at the time, good to know there are still good tools around for this.
ardgedee pro Yesterday
The idea of a font editor running in the browser gives me the horrors, but it's a Just van Rossum joint so it's highly unlikely to suck.

My fontmaking days are behind me, tho.
homerj Yesterday
@ardgedee to clarify, the UI runs in the browser...but the 'server' is a local application on your machine. I guess the impetus for the project was that their type foundry needed to work on some gigantic character sets and enable the team to work asynchronously at the same time.
homerj Yesterday
@ba huh weird. I can see that shake (it says I follow it) but can't actually add to it.
BennyTheIcepick pro Yesterday
If you’re looking for a name, may I suggest smashburger?
mashcan Yesterday
My name suggestion is "Raccoon"
dreyfusslugado Yesterday
Botero Bold
KMAlexander pro Yesterday
I LOVE THIS. Especially how you're handling the counters.

I use an Illustrator add-on for my font work. (Fontself) But we should get a Fonts/Typography shake up and running.
bezt pro Yesterday
@homerj I think Amber (typography’s owner) hasn’t been active for a while.
poorusher Yesterday
Its one of the tiny flaws in mltshp, someone creates a group then leaves, then there's no way for another user to take over admin of the group.

I think it's happened in the past where someone else has had to create a new group with the same concept.
ardgedee pro Yesterday
@homerj Yeah, I get that. The networked user management part is absolutely brilliant. It's the "editing graphics with a browser UI" part that stops my heart.
bezt pro Yesterday
@poorusher There’s a manual process where you can request (via the Slack) for the admin folks to reassign a shk, preferably with the former owner’s blessing, if they’re contactable.
poorusher Yesterday
@bezt ooooh nice.
dogwelder pro Yesterday
Before I read the title I saw the picture and thought "Hey, that's a cool font! Where can I get it?"
grantbarrett pro Yesterday
Fontographer! I tweaked so many fonts. You'd want serif or descender a little longer for a logotype before Illustrator nicely converted text to editable outlines. What was that other program that would do it? ATM?
homerj Yesterday
@dogwelder adding you to the beta tester list... :)
stx pro 22 hours ago
Call it burger, shake & fries. Or something like that. Good job!
poorusher 21 hours ago
Slab Pickle Grotesk

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