More notes from my research into becoming the Industry Leading Font Management Platform:
–the vast majority of the time to generate 41,000 fonts via fontmake was writing UFOs: ~9hrs. After that it only took ~42 min to build all 41,000 (single glyph) OTFs, 60MB total
–if I generated a single variable font & used varLib to make static instances, would go much faster?
–even w/ joke projects like this I improved skills like writing scripts for building designspace files💪
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@e0c5bcea Iʻve learned that my 2019 MB Pro can generate 10,000 fonts in about 2hrs and 10 minutes. So Iʻll need 8 hrs and 53 minutes to generate 41,000 fonts. Slightly longer than anticipated, but definitely worth it for my dumb joke!
I also learned:
–a designspace file with 41,000 instances is ~16MB
–with my typeface Pennypacker I can make over 100,000 unique fonts using just the weight and width axes of the existing designspace
Soon I will be an Industry Leading Font Management Platform!
@e0c5bcea I agree git is annoying sometimes, but indeed better than the alternative.
Thankfully I’ve managed to minimize most issues with git for font sources these days. At Robothon 2015 someone suggested I use SourceTree app and it has been a huge help for me. I’m curious what your most common issues are?
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