On Sep 3, 2014, at 6:43 PM, Matthew Flaschen
<mflaschen(a)wikimedia.org> wrote:
WikiFont (which generates font file output from SVG source code).
tl:dr SVGs yay!
The problem was WikiFont did not generate itself (magic?) from svgs. The svgs had to be
fairly painstakingly imported into a font forge project which was then used to generate
the font.
The font forge importation workflow was sticky enough (importing svgs and mapping them,
etc) that small visual tweaks (baseline offsets and such) ended up being made in the font
forge project itself as well, thus diverging from the source svgs.
I think this workflow stickiness was what led the designer to see the font forge project
as canonical.
So... the 2 scripts I wrote.
One automates creating a font from a folder of svgs. Svgs are canonical as they should be,
but hey, you want a font? You got it.
The second script, just for fun, reverses the process and creates a folder of svgs from
the font.
I've been dogfooding these for the last week for a supplemental font the iOS app uses.
I'll post them hopefully next week when I get a chance to document them. If you
can't wait and are in the SF office stop by my desk and I can demo it in about 2
minutes.