“AdjustMargins batch adjusts the left and right margins on your glyphs. The amount you with to add/subtract from the margins on your selected glyph(s) (e.g. 100, -20, 42, -5). You can also use the = operand followed by a number to set the margin(s) explicitly to that measurement, or you can enter a glyph name to have the margins of your selected glyphs(s) to be changed to that glyphs margin measurements (e.g. =15, =-50, =A, =Oacute, =uni20B9).” I’m very impressed with the polished UI, and smart little icons!
CopySidebearings
HandleLength
“A Robofont tool to display the length and angle of all bezier handles in the current glyph window.” Rather straightforward, but very useful if you like to know these things at a glance without having to use the pesky ‘ol ruler.
ControlBoard
“Control Board is a RoboFont extension for communicating with Arduino-compatible devices using the Firmata library.”
Make buttons, press buttons, RoboFont does stuff. Andy goes on: “It turns physical input events from components connected to the Arduino (pressing buttons, toggling switches, turning knobs) into ControlBoardInput event notifications, and turns ControlBoardOutput notifications into changes in state of the output components connected to the board (toggling LEDs on and off or changing the color of RGB LEDs, moving motors, etc.)”
Tech wizard @andyclymer controlling type with physical hardware in the #TypeLab at #Typographics pic.twitter.com/QSz0e8P5Dk
— Typographics (@TypographicsNYC) June 14, 2015
Andy is a super nice guy and a true G. In fact, his work on Obsidian has him up for the Robofont Extensions True G of the Year Award. Good luck Andy.
Compare Glyphsets
Not to be outdone by Nina, Gustavo also has a pretty chill script for comparing character sets across two UFOs. It appears that Commercial Type has one as well. There are multiple people writing the same scripts. Does that seem wasteful to you? At any rate, here is Gustavo’s.
Compare Two Character Sets
A very simple little guy to check one character set against another. It lets you select a master UFO, and then the UFO you would like to compare, then it prints a list of the missing glyphs in the compared UFO, and marks those glyphs red in the master UFO.
Font Inspector
“Font Inspector is an analytics script for FontLab and RoboFont. It generates a comprehensive overview of design and metrics of all open fonts into a single HTML file.” It’s as beautiful as it is useful. Ondrej is truly a G.
ScaleFast
“This script’s mission is simple: keep stem widths consistent while you fiddle with proportions of a glyph. It manages that by trying to compensate for scale deformations through interpolation. To do that, it requires at least two masters (a regular and bold for instance). This way, you can easily produce scaled versions of existing glyph for any purpose you see fit, small capitals, superiors, extended or condensed styles, scaled up, down, etc. Any transformation you input can be saved as a preset for a later use. Presets are stored inside the ufo file of the first master font (see below), but you can use presets stored in any of the open fonts available when using ScaleFast.” This extension shares many features with Frederik’s ufoStretch.
Spacing Observer
I really love it when you have an idea for a script, then you realize it’s already been impeccably executed by Loïc. “This script implements an observer that monitors the editing of glyph sidebearings in the space center and propagates these sidebearing modifications among all glyphs belonging to a common metrics group.”
Batch
Batch will generate OTFs, TTFs, PFAs, VFBs (if ufo2vfb is installed), WOFFs, EOTs, and SVGs with the greatest of ease.
