Workshop on Variable Fonts and manual interpolation (with stroke fonts inside) with La Cambre master students in type media, Brussels, 2018

Cloning

First clone this repository when you have no account on the Constant gitlab use, You'll not be able to push without an account:

http://gitlab.constantvzw.org/osp/workshop.dirty-variables.git

If you have an account use:

git@gitlab.constantvzw.org:osp/workshop.dirty-variables.git

Some example fonts were added as a submodule, retrieve them with the following commands:

git submodule init
git submodule update 

Inspector

We are using Fonttools, which ttx format is a clear xml dump of every table present in a (variable) font. See https://github.com/fonttools/fonttools

The inspector web tools display the content of ttx files :

• Load the ttx file
• Select the glyph in the dropdown menu