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[why] The code needlessly create two language ID17 even if ID16 is only one entry / one languange. ID17 is always the same for both languages. This is an example for the wrong way: ======== BlexMonoNerdFont-Text.ttf ======== SFNT Fullname ID 4 BlexMono Nerd Font Text SFNT Family ID 1 BlexMono Nerd Font Text SFNT SubFamily ID 2 Regular SFNT Pref Family ID 16 BlexMono Nerd Font SFNT Pref Styles ID 17 ('Text', 'Text') SFNT PS Name ID 6 BlexMonoNF-Text SFNT Compatible ID 18 - SFNT CID findfont ID 20 - SFNT WWS Family ID 21 - SFNT WWS SubFamily ID 22 - PS fontname BlexMonoNF-Text PS fullname BlexMono Nerd Font Text PS familyname BlexMono Nerd Font Text fondname None This is an example for the correct way (two ID17 when we have two ID16): ======== NotoSerifCondensedNerdFont-BlackItalic.ttf ======== SFNT Fullname ID 4 NotoSerif Condensed NF Black Italic SFNT Family ID 1 NotoSerif Cond NF Black SFNT SubFamily ID 2 Italic SFNT Pref Family ID 16 ('NotoSerif Condensed Nerd Font', 'NotoSerif Cond NF') SFNT Pref Styles ID 17 ('Black Italic', 'Black Italic') SFNT PS Name ID 6 NotoSerifCondensedNF-BlackItalic SFNT Compatible ID 18 - SFNT CID findfont ID 20 - SFNT WWS Family ID 21 - SFNT WWS SubFamily ID 22 - PS fontname NotoSerifCondensedNF-BlackItalic PS fullname NotoSerif Condensed NF Black Italic PS familyname NotoSerif Cond NF Black fondname None Signed-off-by: Fini Jastrow <ulf.fini.jastrow@desy.de> |
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README.md |
Creating Consistently Grouped Patched Fonts
This is a small sub-project to font-patcher that uses a little bit more knowledge to come up with font names and name parts. In applications multiple fonts are grouped under a 'Family'. Each member of the Family has a different 'SubFamily' or 'Style'.
Consider a font named 'Times' that has two variants: normal and bold. For this font the Family would be 'Times' and the 'Style' would be 'Regular' (i.e normal) in one file and 'Bold' in the other file.
With this information applications are able to group all 'Times' together and additionally choose the 'Bold' font if the user pushes the 'B' button on the font style dialog in that application.
Motivation
Quite a number of patched fonts have inconsistent or simply wrong font grouping. The naming in general is sometimes surprising and not following naming conventions. This is in part due to the font-patcher, but in part the source fonts are already strange. This results in invisible (but installed) fonts in some applications, inconsistent naming (Familyname differs from Fullname) and not correctly working bold/italic selectors in some applications.
And we would like to have the information within the names sorted in a consistent way. usually a font name consists of these parts (in this order):
- Name base (e.g.
Noto
) - Variant (e.g.
Sans
) - Subvariant (e.g.
Display
) - Weight (e.g.
Black
) - Style (e.g.
Italic
)
This is important because we want to add subvariant information, namely the Nerd Font
part.
Example:
- (old)
Iosevka Term Light Italic Nerd Font
- (new)
Iosevka Term Nerd Font Light Italic
The Plan
To solve these issues the font name parts have to be analyzed more thoroughly and then categorized. These categories are then used to assemble the names in correct order. The simple (not typographically aware) applications shall always get groups of at most four styles, and these are Regular, Bold, Italic, and Bold-Italic. Other styles turn up as Families, because this is the only way they would work in these more simple applications.
Typographically aware applications, on the other hand, get all styles grouped under one Family name.
First experiments showed that the full information can usually be restored already from the file names that our source fonts have.
This new naming is complete optional (but recommended). Give the option --makegroups
to font-patcher
and it will try to come up with reasonable grouping and naming. Leave the option out and it will
work as it always did.
The Tests
In this directory were two tests. If interested you need to go back in the git history. They are not needed anymore.
Helper scripts
There are some helper scripts that help examining the font files. Of course there are other, more professional tools to dump font information, but here we get all we need in a concise way:
query_mono
font_name [font_name ...]
query_names
font_name [font_name ...]
query_panose
font_name
query_sftn
[<sfnt-name>] font_name
query_version
font_name
They can be invoked like this $ fontforge query_sfnt foo.ttf
.