sameWidther

This is a tool for getting words of same visual width. It accepts OTF/TTF/UFO files and gets you random words of the same visual width, useful for example for type specimens.

installing

Install directly from this cloned repo. This way you will always get the most recent version. Navigate to the repo in your terminal and execute this command
```
python setup.py install
```
Install this package via pip. This won't be updated that often but it offer more convenient way of installing a package.
```
python -m pip install sameWidther
```

usage

you can use it as commandline tool

sameWidther Desktop/sameWidth/font.ufo ENG 4000 10

or directly in your python script

from sameWidther import SameWidther, TTFont, Font
# font = SameWidther(Font('font.ufo'), 'ENG') # for UFOs
font = SameWidther(TTFont('font.otf'), 'GER') # for OTFs, TTFs
print(font.getWords(3000, 10, case='upper'))

arguments

positional
- font - path to OTF/TTF/UFO file that you want to use
- language - three letter code of language that you want to have the words in, ENG/GER available locally. Other languages under three letter code 639-2/B are available too. SameWidther's dataset manager will download them on the first request. You can also provide existing path to a database in json format of such structure ["word", "house", "word2", ...]
- width - width of the words
- wordCount - number of words that you need
optional - keyword arguments
- threshold - (default: 10) how much in width can the words differ
- case - (default: lower) do you want to lower, upper or capitalize the case of the words?

word databases

[ENG] English https://github.com/dwyl/english-words
[GER] German https://github.com/creativecouple/all-the-german-words
for other available languages see Lib/resources.json

other resources

customized OTF/TTF kern dump https://gist.github.com/m4rc1e/59017729923ac4930dcd76823c0acb91