Justin Penner

My little Github page of type design resources has a pretty new home ↓↓ typedesignresources.com

@TiroTypeworks x.com/bcferrys/statu…

Still one of my favourite signs. Never change, BC Ferries.

@hhpapazian No strict rule, but I usually do a bit of research and try to find 3–4 resources to start a new category.

@_justinpenner Cool. How many do you think we need to start off a list?

My little Github page of type design resources has a pretty new home ↓↓ typedesignresources.com

Come and join the Typofonderie team, depending on your experience, we offer long-term internships, or a 2-month trial period before an indefinite contract (French-style employment guarantee, and its advantages) from September 2024. ➽ typofonderie.com/contact

@hhpapazian @typofonderie Thanks! It’s my project, but it’s also everyone’s project. All contributions are welcome, including suggesting new categories or specific links and resources.

@_justinpenner @typofonderie Hey whose project is this?! ;-) I'll start jotting down what I run into.

@hhpapazian Great idea. Do you know any foundries that offer them? I saw an ad for one at @typofonderie today, but I can’t recall any others.

@_justinpenner Suggestion: internships.

Neat little easter egg from @googlefonts. It also works with a few others like Open Sans and Roboto.

@FaceType @Monotype @MyFonts I often wonder how many foundries have had experiences as bad as mine 🫠

Why is @Monotype so bad with foundry support? It was so much better when @MyFonts was still independent.

@fonthausen 👋🏻 dm me some details? Sounds interesting, but your dms are closed.

I am looking for type designers, lettering artists for collaboration. I am looking for people that are interested in developing sexy lettering. People from every gender, culture and/or country. The more diverse, the better. Feel free to dm me for more details. Please retweet!

@Paul_Hanslow I love that part of it.

@_justinpenner Thanks Justin. Ah type design, the job where more time is allocated towards researching and assessment than actual design.

HELP WANTED: Compiling a Latin proof for testing diacritics, noting each language's base + diacritic pair. Anything missing? Let me know. Characters displayed between brackets [eg.(ä)] feature in the language but only within borrowed words.

🍃 TalkingLeaves is now available for @glyphsapp! Explore the world’s languages and writing systems, and see what your font is missing! It’s free and open-source, so please contribute any ideas or bug reports. Get it @ github.com/justinpenner/T…

@TiroTypeworks Would the samples be pulled into your font editor? I’ve thought about building a Glyphs plugin with a UI for extracting text samples from web pages.

I would like to have a tool that I can point at a URL and it would collect from the content of that webpage all unique instances of Indic clusters that contain a character or character sequence that I specify. I know this sort of thing can be scripted, but with some kind of UI?

@yanone @moyogo @simoncozens @davelab6 @rosettatype No worries! I also get tired of trying to follow conversations on here, with the way threads get forked and forked again. I'll get in touch via email or Github issues if I have any questions for you, after I've worked on this a bit more.

@_justinpenner @moyogo @simoncozens @davelab6 @rosettatype I got tagged several times in this conversation but I don't have the concentration to follow. You can reach me by email if I can contribute anything meaningful to this.

Building a @glyphsapp plugin that lists languages your font doesn’t support yet. Add missing glyphs for any language in a click!

@moyogo @simoncozens @davelab6 @rosettatype @yanone Ok, I just ran shaperglot on a pan-African font that has both Eng forms. It passes Sami but fails African langs. So I went to file an issue but found you've already made one (github.com/googlefonts/sh…).

@moyogo @simoncozens @davelab6 @rosettatype @yanone Yes, a pan-African font shouldn’t fail if there are no Eng subs, but if it happens to contain all codepoints for Sami, then a warning should appear to remind the designer to localize.

@simoncozens @davelab6 @rosettatype @yanone I like your approach with “providers” in Shaperglot. I have some ideas about dealing with unencoded glyphs in checking for language support, but you may have already addressed them, so I’ll get more familiar with it before I post an issue.

@mrkvlmrvc @glyphsapp @yanone Yes, I think Script + Region sets like this are a very useful approach. Type designers/foundries are everywhere, and should have standard glyphsets to support languages in their own part of the world. @yanone thoughts? Latin North America, Latin Oceania, etc.

@mrkvlmrvc @glyphsapp @yanone It would also make it easy for the user to pull the latest versions of open-source glyphsets that occasionally change over time.

@mrkvlmrvc @glyphsapp @yanone Great idea. It would be easy to extend this to show standard glyphsets in a similar UI, so you can easily add GF/Koeberlin/Adobe/ISO/etc glyphsets to your project.

@hernandezrcris @glyphsapp Agreed, I’ve been thinking about this, and a primary goal for this tool is to make it easier to find and support underserved languages. It will likely be sorted by language name, until you click a column header. Any other columns you would want to see added?

@_justinpenner @glyphsapp Returning to this, I'm hesitant about using the number of speakers as the sole or primary measure used here (considering factors like inaccurate representations and imbalances in power/resources).