Producing an open font in 2022
summary
A practical walkthrough of producing an open font in 2022: use free editors like FontForge, Runebender or commercial Glyphs/FontLab, compile with fontmake and fonttools, and run automated checks via fontbakery and GitHub Actions hooked to the Google Unified Font Repository. Variable fonts rely on HarfBuzz/FreeType, color gradient vector fonts land in Chrome 98, and the Outfit typeface is shipped with stylistic alternates, a large ligature and passes CI after remediating numerous Font Bakery errors.
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chapters (12)
- 0:00Introduction to open fonts
- 2:36Why font choice matters
- 3:56History and licensing
- 6:11The history of typography
- 8:10Digital typography evolution
- 12:43Web fonts and layout engines
- 15:11Future of vector fonts
- 16:54Font creation tools
- 19:49Quality control and automation
- 24:15Case study: Outfit typeface
- 27:27Future trends in design
- 30:23Q&A session
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