sarsamurmu/ocg-sans

Ol Chiki Gaban Sans

An Ol Chiki font focusing on better legibility.

How to build

Make sure you have FontForge and Python installed

• Use Affinity Designer to open the glyphs.afdesign file
• Export all artboards to eps directory
• Create a python virtual environment and activate it, then install all the dependencies

  py -m venv .venv
  .venv\Scripts\activate
  python -m pip -r requirements.txt

• Run command to generate fonts

  ffpython ff.py && python finalize.py

• Find the generated fonts:
  • /fonts/: Fonts built by fontforge
  • /fonts/rounded/: Fonts with their coordinates rounded to integer. Must compare with original fonts, beacause sometimes these font slightly deviate from original design

How to preview while building

• Open Live Server in VS Code
• Open /preview/basic.html for basic preview
• There are also other pages (like /preview/kern.html, ...) for different purposes
• In your browser, open DevTools. Go to Network tab, then check Disable cache, keep the devtools open while previewing
• Run this command

  # You would need NodeJS and nodemon installed for this to work
  nodemon -e eps,py --exec "ffpython ff.py testmode"

• Now the page will update with new font everytime you make changes to your design

Why am I using such complex build steps instead of using any font designing program?

I could have just used FontLab, FontCreator, or maybe Glyphs. But I wanted to incorporate all the programs that I already use to develop font, that would be more comfortable for me. I personally think Affinity Designer has more features for designing than any other font designing programs (except, maybe Glyphs), since it is a generic designing program. Also, there's more flexibility in using scripts, I could automate almost all aspects of font post-processing.

License

This font is licensed under the SIL Open Font License. See LICENSE