Command line programe that outputs a JS style array of points that represent the outline of the string given as an argument
This is a command line program, using Openframeworks. (On mac you need to build it and use the Contents/MacOS application)
The goal of this is to use it for those typographic effects with canvas, THREE or processing.js that require the knowledge of the convex hull of a string of characters. It can resample the output shape so the number of output segments is smaller.
The command line syntax is
OfRenderJSAlphabet fontName dimensionInPixel string [minimumDistanceBetweenPointsInPx]
It will output a JS formatted array to the standard console output, containing the segments that form the string of characters. Of course it's possible to pipe the output in a file. if string equals ALPHABET, the whole alphabet will be output. Example output:
var charsOutlines = []; charsOutlines['0'] = []; charsOutlines['0'][0] = [ { x: 35.9844, y: -76}, { x: 30.2559, y: -75.5861}, { x: 24.9739, y: -74.3385}, { x: 20.1859, y: -72.2481}, { x: 15.9395, y: -69.306}, { x: 12.2822, y: -65.5033}, { x: 9.26165, y: -60.831}, ..... ];
Arguments
fontName can be either the name of a font installed in the OS (tested on OSX only) or the path to a font file.
Dimension: the font dimension specified in Pixels.
String is optional: if specified
minimumDistanceBetweenPointsInPx: basically resamples the shape, keeping just the points that have at least a certain distance from the previous one