Font tool
What & Why?
Core Text was always an interesting API that I never had much exposure to, so I'm using this project to explore.
This project was originally called Font Alignment Tool, then became Font Analysis Tool. I became obsessed with fonts while working on a project using AutoLayout and I couldn't align center y with a UILabel and a custom font. After reading the true type reference manual I realized fonts were sort of the wild west. After becoming obsessed with fonts I was going to shorten the Analysis part of the project name, but thought that might be a little bit offensive. Since Apple recommends using 2-3 letter abreviations I was using fat_ as my method prefix, so I chaged the whole project to be called FAT.
Also note: I'm not a big fan of the stock Container Controllers I usually like a bit more control, and also really like building from scratch (I tend to learn more this way), so I wrote my own for this project.
Everything here is a work in progress, until it dies.
"I don't like that word 'finish'. When something is finished, that means it's dead, doesn't it? I believe in everlastingness. I never finish a painting – I just stop working on it for a while. I like painting because it's something I never come to the end of. Sometimes I paint a picture, then I paint it all out. Sometimes I'm working on fifteen or twenty pictures at the same time. I do that because I want to – because I like to change my mind so often. The thing to do is always to keep starting to paint, never finishing painting." -Arshile Gorky