- we recommend using a Python virtual environment. You can easily create and activate one with the following commands in Terminal:
python3 -m venv my_venv
source my_venv/bin/activate
- once you have a virtual environment activated, install
drawBotand script dependencies by running the following command from the same directory where this file resides:
python -m pip install -r requirements.txt
You're now ready to run the scripts!
Proof of all accents with a representation of all glyphs using that accent, and example words for each accent (both upper- and lowercase). Additionally, words with “merged” non-abc glyphs (such as æðøß) will be shown.
This script is currently limited to AL-3, an extension to AL-4 and beyond is thinkable.
Input: single font or folder containing font files.
Creates example pages for:
- general alphabet (upper- and lowercase)
- spacing proofs
- some sample words
Modes (proof, spacing, sample) can be chosen individually, or all at once
(all). Writing systems supported are lat, grk, cyr, and figures.
Input: one or more font files.
Visualizes a given (Adobe) character set. The default charset is AL-3. Code points not supported in the font at hand will be shown as a .notdef glyph (but are still present as text in the PDF file).
More information on Adobe’s character sets:
Input: font file(s) or folder of fonts.
Create lines for a string of characters, set in all fonts that support it. The choice of fonts is either all installed fonts (no argument), or all fonts in a given folder tree. The font list can be filtered by supplying a regular expression.
This proof helps solving the question: “How do other fonts deal with this weird glyph?”
Slow.
Creates example pages for usage of a specific letter or letter combination.
Needs a word list as an input file, such as the word lists available at https://github.com/hermitdave/FrequencyWords/tree/master/content/2016
Input: font file(s) or folder of fonts.
Simple script check figure spacing in UFOs (without kerning). For each figure suffix (such as .tosf), a new spacing page is made.
Input: single UFO or folder containing UFO files.
Creates PDF document which helps comparing glyphs of different weights
to each other. Various modes are possible – the default is an
Autopsy-like showing of glyphs side-by-side.
Other modes include gradient, single, overlay.
Input: folder with UFO files or individual UFOs
Visualizes the complete glyphset of a font or UFO on a single page.
The output is good to use with a diffing tool like diff-pdf in a later step.
The glyphset can be filtered with a regular expression (for example,
use -r ".*dieresis" to show all glyphs whose names end with -dieresis).
Input: folder containing UFO or font files, individual fonts or UFOs.
Create/update the README.md file for this repository.
python3 makeReadme.py
Creates example paragraphs corresponding to a given character set. Default mode is creating single-page PDF with a random subset of the requested charset, alternatively a full charset can be consumed systematically, to show as many characters as possible.
Known bug: line spacing may become inconsistent if a character set beyond the font’s character support is requested (this is a macOS limitation caused by the vertical metrics in a given fallback font).
Input: folder containing fonts, or single font file.
Creates character charts similar to those appearing in The Unicode® Standard, but using the supplied font (and only the characters present in the font).
Input: font file or folder containing font files
CLI Inputs: see help
Creates pages with example characters to visualize the variation of vertical metrics across a typeface family.
Input: folder containing font or UFO files.
Creates simple view which illustrates all vertical metrics set in the font metadata. Additionally, tallest and lowest glyphs are shown.
Using the -n option, the number of extreme glyphs can be increased.
Input: font file
Creates pages of example words for a list of fonts, arranged in waterfall-like fashion (both vertically and horizontally).
The proof text comes from the waterfall_horizontal and waterfall_vertical text files found in the _content folder.
Input: folder containing font files.
- "en_10k.txt" is based on en_50k.txt from the FrequencyWords project, Copyright (c) 2016 Hermit Dave
- fonts included in this distribution are subject to the SIL Open Font License, Copyright 2016-2023 Adobe.
- Unicode and the Unicode Logo are registered trademarks of Unicode, Inc. in the United States and other countries.