@MauriceMeilleur Hi Maurice, sorry I reply sooo late, but I missed this message. I just wanted to show you what I did at the end of the semester.

http://nedkamburov.com/res/projects/TypeWeb/AmendFont/showcase.html

Thank you, @frederik, because due to your suggestion, I went to look for some type in the library and found some pretty funky examples.

Thank you, all the best,
ned

Hello masters of code,
I am fairly new to Drawbot but I have been working on it with Just at KABK. I did this project http://nedkamburov.com/res/project/TypeCoding/ShowcaseDrawbot/website/showcase.html, which was really exciting but I decided it's finished and I need to move on.

I want to create another font, maybe with some OpenType features (but that's for later). I was interested in 'impossible typeface'— fonts that are only possible through programming. Any suggestions? Maybe references?

thank you, all the best,
ned

@gferreira Thank you! That is much clearer now. I found that in my example I have a lot of transformations and somewhere it gets weird again, but on its own it works!

@gferreira That seems important! Thank you!
@frederik No, I do not want to make my typesetter, definitely. Thanks for the heads up. What Gustavo explained is what I am talking about...

This is exactly what I need. However, my font doesn't react normally to it... The same code with the same arguments, only different fonts:

for char in TEXT:
    src.text(char, (0, 0), font='someFont', fontSize=FONTSIZE)
    drawPath(src)

    advance = textSize(char)[0] 

But if I typeset it in another way, it works:

font('someFont', fontSize=FONTSIZE)
text(TEXT, (0, 0))

That's why I am confused...

Thank you, @frederik. That's exactly what I was wondering! I am trying to access the side bearings but what is the method for that (leftMargin, rightMargin)?

If I use the drawBot text():

font('Helvetica', 200)
txt = 'ABCW'
text(txt, (0,0))

The spacing is perfectly rendered from the font. How does drawBot know when to use the kerning pairs for [AA], [AW]?

If I manipulate the characters one by one and then render them, how can I use the existing font bearings to maintain proper spacing?

I end up with this kind of nonsense:

def drawText(txt, x, y, fSize):
  for char in txt, range(len(txt))):
        aWidth = fSize * 0.6 * i        
        
        if char =="A":
            aWidth += i * 40 # + (glyph.leftMargin?)
            
        if char =="B":
            aWidth += i * 36

        ...

        renderChar(char, x + aWidth, y, fSize)

Hello guys,
I was wondering how Rfont and RGlyph work? I can set a myFont.newGlyph(char) but I am missing something.

from fontParts.world import RFont, RGlyph

# create a font object
myFont = RFont(showInterface=False)

fontName = "LucidaGrande"

char = 'A'
glyph = myFont.newGlyph(char)
print(glyph)

I get, as expected:

<RGlyph 'A' ('public.default') at 4470687248>

but then the glyph is empty if I:

print(glyph.isEmpty())

Usually you would do

glyph = CurrentGlyph()

but I am working in drawBot. Can I just set this glyph to a typeface I specify and still get access to all the methods of a RGlyph() object?

Hello @frederik,
thank you for sheding some light on the issue. Maybe I will try the DrawBot package.

Sorry for the confusion about the example, I meant this which is from the official documentation of Vanilla. I also understand now that a print() command prints in a specified window (I guess) and not the console.

Thanks! It is exciting to see all sliders and buttons

Hello there,
I have a question about some UI within drawbot. I used the standard Variable[] but it is not really working for my purpose.
In short: I have a string ('SOME TEXT') that renders each letter, but there are multiple methods that can be chosen for each of them.

Here, I am just hardcoding the dictionary 'options' for each character...

If I use the default UI from Drawbot I can render the text

but I also want to show under it, based on the string, a multiple choice for each letter:

I saw that the vanilla library is meant for this, but what approach could I take to enter the string and based on it to render a dictionary which can be modified by the user? And btw these examples from RoboFont don't print anything, not sure if they work on my machine. No errors but I am not sure what I should do.

Thanks a lot!

Great, that makes sense. Is it also possible in DrawBot directly? I would like to animate it with other letters later.

Hi @frederik, thanks, I got RoboFont now and labelled them, but how can I references them.

What method could find the labelled points in an array of points?

If I use:

for points in srcShape.points:
    print(points)

I get all points (x, y), but they have no 'label' attribute.

Hello guys,
I want to try some point manipulation in DrawBot. I have used bezier paths before but it seems like it is very unclear how to start it all.

In short I have a drawn font and I want to:

• Load a letter or a string into Drawbot (or work directly in Glyphs)
• Select the specific points I want to manipulate
• Move them around while keeping the curve smooth

Here I attach a gif of what I have in mind as the end result:

– Can I label specific points from Glyphs to access them easily later?
– Perhaps there is already something similar asked in the forum but I didn't find it. Can you reference it here?

thank you!