This is a book project, about how to design new typefaces with FontForge.
If you wish to contribute to this website, you are very welcome to! Here are a few ways you can do so:
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Report an issue for someone else to resolve, by clicking the ‘Issues’ button at the top of this page, in the main navigation bar.
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Contribute a change directly, by forking it on GitHub and editing the plain text files, then send a pull request. (If that sounds unfamiliar, learn how with GitHub’s excellent interactive introduction).
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Discuss general topics on the fontforge-devel email discussion list
The book and this site is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 3.0 Unported License.
This site is made with the Jekyll content management system, and hosted on GitHub pages.
If you’re not familiar with GitHub, they have excellent help pages.
_layouts/*.html: HTML template files_includes/*.html: snippets of HTML that are included in pages and templatesassets/: CSS, JS and image files_config.yml: Configuration for Jekyll (ignore this file)en-US/: the site’s contents, in US English
Each page is in Markdown format, with a .md file extension. These files are converted into corresponding .html files by Jekyll when they start with these lines:
- published: if the page should not be published, set this to
false - layout:
bookpageis the default - weight: an integer value from 1 to 100 that effects the ordering of the page in the sidebar and homepage lists
- category: the category the page belongs in
- title: the page title used in the title tag and h1 of the page
Example:
---
published: true
layout: bookpage
weight: 60
category: Workflow
title: Page Title
---
For Linux, ensure that ruby-dev is installed on your system: e.g. for Ubuntu 14.04:
sudo apt-get install ruby-dev
First install Jekyll, with gem:
sudo gem install jekyll
To see the site as it will appear after processing by Jekyll and review your edits live in a browser layout, run:
jekyll serve --watch
Now browse http://localhost:4000/.