John Armstrong

@DunwichType@typo.social estate sales I lean towards older, but solid lamps Also mom’n’pop lamp shops, but those are more expensive. Also Facebook Market, but the quality varies.

@matratype https://blog.flickr.net/en/2025/04/15/service-update-original-large-size-download-limitations-on-free-accounts/

@paulvanderlaan Try fonttools:

  pyftsubset MyFont.otf \
      --output-file=dehinted.otf \
      --glyphs-file=<(python3 -c "from fontTools.ttLib import TTFont;
  print('\n'.join(TTFont('MyFont.otf').getGlyphOrder()))") \
      --no-hinting \
      --desubroutinize \
      --retain-gids \
      --layout-features='*' \
      --name-IDs='*' \
      --notdef-outline \
      --glyph-names \
      --no-prune-unicode-ranges \
      --no-prune-codepage-ranges

@w__h_ might be Beausite Fit https://fatype.com/typefaces/beausite

@Sveinbjorn Cool stuff! I gave it a try and was happy to see it worked with variable fonts. A glyph table would be nice too. The only unintuitive thing was double clicking on the preview opened the font in the default application. That may be a limitation of Quick Look.

@jenskutilek the best is usually what you and your team are familiar with, or whatever is broadly supported in your industry

Also, you don’t have to upgrade all at once. It took me a while to switch from asdf to mise and from pip to uv

Mise with mise.toml

• programming language and tool manager per project (specific versions of Python, Rust, Node.js, etc.)
• global packages manager per project (afdko, fontmake, fontspector, etc.)
• scripts (called tasks) manager for project-specific bash and python scripts
• automatic .venv activation

UV

• scaffold project and create venv
• manage python package dependencies in pyproject.toml
• experimental dependency pinning and monorepo support

Formatting - ruff Types - basedpyright CI - GitHub Actions Testing - pytest and tox

@tobestobs I really like how GRAD allows for such fine-grained control over rendering and the perceived thickness!

Other css properties like font-smoothing and text-rendering can affect the font rendering too. Oh, and setting font-synthesis to none is nice, too.

@ohno will you be selling the book at https://letterformarchive.org/shop/fonts-are-easy-books-are-hard/ or do I need to buy my own copy in advance and bring it? 😄

@marsidesino @alphabettes is the font licensing mess database open-source or available? For example, I’m interested in reading all ePub licenses and comparing licenses across countries / regions. A public google sheets, airtable, or notion page would be very cool!

@atypi@typo.social @johndberry@typo.social is there a recording of the Info Session to learn more about the Call for Proposals? I was unable to make it to the live event, but I would still like to submit an application.

@fontstruct love the color fonts! They’re underrated. I enjoyed browsing the gallery https://fontstruct.com/gallery?category=color

@fontstruct when I searched for “star”, it seemed to mostly based on name, so that makes sense. I was impressed with the dot matrix and bauhaus search results. I’ve seen some smaller marketplaces struggle with search when type designers put the font under as many categories as they can, such as both serif and sans-serif. Plus, some stuff a lot of keywords in descriptions so they show up in more results. Making a good search engine is hard.

@fontstruct search based on matrix sizes and brick/block choices would be very cool! And probably straightforward to implement too. To recommend similar fonts on a foundry website, I implemented my own version of glyph/font similarity—it gets complicated pretty quickly.

@fontstruct Very cool! Is it AI search based on the font name and its image? It seems to work well with search terms like Halloween and dot matrix, but not so much with search terms like serif or geometric. It reminds me of an icon search I built several years ago. I like the letter A previews a lot. Great improvements!