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Font Bakery
[Dave Crossland]
Font Bakery is a command-line tool written in Python 3 for checking the quality of font projects. It is a tool similar to tools used for checking the quality of fonts on Google Fonts. Links: - List of checks currently offered--they include thes subcategories: opentype, universal, adobefonts, googlefonts, fontval, shared_conditions, ufo_sources.
- A full introduction
- https://gitter.im/fontbakery/Lobby is a chat channel. Font Bakery has an active community of contributors from foundries around the world, including Adobe Fonts, Dalton Maag, Type Network, and Google Fonts.
- Full developer documentation (a hosted and compiled copy of contents in the docs directory.)
- The project was initiated by Dave Crossland in 2013 to accelerate the onboarding process for Google Fonts. In 2017 Lasse Fister and Felipe Sanches rewrote it into a modern, modular architecture suitable for both individuals and large distributors. Felipe has maintained the check contents since 2016. Lasse also began a sister project, Font Bakery Dashboard: A UI and a cloud system that scales up for checking thousands of font files super fast and in parallel, by using thousands of "container" virtual machines. Font Bakery is not an official Google project, and Google provides no support for it. Throughout 2018, 2019 and 2020 the core project maintainers Felipe Correa da Silva Sanches and Lasse Fister are commissioned by the Google Fonts team to maintain it.
- TypoLabs 2018 talk on YouTube and its presentation deck.
- Video by Felipe Sanchez.
- Most of the checks are for OpenType binary files, and project metadata files. If you are developing a font project publicly with Github (or a similar host) you can set up a Continuous Integration service (like Travis) to run Font Bakery on each commit, so that with each update all checks will be run on your files.
- Github link.
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EXTERNAL LINKS
Font Bakery
Behance page
MyFonts search
Monotype search
Fontspring search
Google search
INTERNAL LINKS
Typography ⦿
Truetype font software ⦿
Font software ⦿
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