/boonjot

BoonJot Font

Primary LanguageCSSSIL Open Font License 1.1OFL-1.1

บุญจด สุดหรรษา (BoonJot)

BoonJot Screenshoot

BoonJot is left-handed comic sans family (I supposed). It’s machine-made family with unique stroke speed, pen shape & drawing direction especially Thai glyphs. I designed & drew each glyph as single stroke before expanded it to get proper weight with FontForge then worked in detail with Inkscape. Glyph style is up-right italic but unlike many handwriting fonts, BoonJot doesn’t try to connect glyphs together. That maintains its casual look & still somewhat legible on screen at small size.

Specimen and test pages can be found as slideshow here https://fontuni.com/boonjot/slideshow.html or in PDF format here https://fontuni.com/boonjot/docs/boonjot-specimen.pdf.

Many thanks to f0nt.com community for testing & review.

Build Fonts

Binary fonts were already built & included in fonts dir but you can do it yourself anyway.

  • Install FontForge (+Python extention)
  • Compile ttfautohint from dev repo http://repo.or.cz/w/ttfautohint.git or brew install ttfautohint --HEAD for better Thai hinting.
  • Compile Google's woff2 compressor https://github.com/google/woff2.
  • Clone this repos & get inside it.
  • Fontuni library for building OT features & RevealJS for HTML pages are required. Run git submodule init && git submodule update
  • Then run fontforge -script scripts/build.py to build TTF, WOFF & WOFF2 fonts

Build Pages (locally)

  • I use Pandoc (v1.15+), RevealJS & Sass to convert markdown to html. If you edit the file sources/index.md, just run sh scripts/build-pages.sh to rebuild it.
  • The slides won't work properly with file uri scheme (for example file:///fontuni/boonjot/index.html) so you need whatever webserver which can serve static html. Many built-in webservers will work just fine, for example python2 -m SimpleHTTPServer 4000 or python3 -m http.server 4000 or ruby -run -e httpd -- -p 4000 . or php -S localhost:4000.
  • Then open your browser & go to http://localhost:4000/

CSS workarounds

  • The locl feature only works for installed fonts (on your machine). For web fonts (@font-face), we need to precisely enable this feature like this one:

    body {
  -webkit-font-feature-settings:"locl"; 
  -moz-font-feature-settings:"locl"; 
  -ms-font-feature-settings:"locl"; 
  font-feature-settings:"locl";
}

Known issues & Wontfix

See #12