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# Variable fonts | ||
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This is a repo with information how variable fonts are structured and how to build/use/manipulate them. | ||
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Spoiler: At the moment (2024-08-21) there aren't much information about the technical approach. Furthermore, the capabilities of creating it via open source tools is kind of hard. | ||
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## The basics | ||
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> Variable fonts are an evolution of the OpenType font specification that enables many different variations of a typeface to be incorporated into a single file. | ||
Source: https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/CSS/CSS_fonts/Variable_fonts_guide | ||
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- It is fully supported in all browsers, see [MDNs Variable_fonts_guide](https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/CSS/CSS_fonts/Variable_fonts_guide). | ||
- In general the font file (`.otf`/`.ttf`) contains an additional [table](https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/typography/opentype/spec/fvar) to enable the variable font. | ||
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## The idea | ||
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In a naive way I thought: "We have already an icon font, it should be easy to convert it to a variable font" - I was wrong. | ||
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First of all if we use for example this [tool](https://github.com/db-ui/gif) we can generate different file types. And it may contain different icon sizes (e.g. 16, 24, 32) which might look different, with different weights etc. | ||
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But the biggest problem is that a variable font has a restriction: To interpolate a font glyph, it needs the same amount of points and lines and in the same order. Otherwise, it won't be able to interpolate properly. | ||
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## The tools | ||
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A great place to start is [opentype.js](https://opentype.js.org/). You can check already created variable fonts here. And there is a good JS library behind it. Currently, they don't support writing variable fonts, but there is a [PR for variable fonts support](https://github.com/opentypejs/opentype.js/pull/701). | ||
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## Create our own variable font with open source tools | ||
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Based on a [YouTube video](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xoQuWARCUWI) you can create your own variable font with some open source tools. You need those tools: | ||
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- [FontForge](https://fontforge.org/) | ||
- Python Libraries: [fontmake](https://github.com/googlefonts/fontmake) | ||
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## Example | ||
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> You need to go into this directory: `cd variable-fonts` | ||
1. We use a simple `test.svg` with two rectangles as a testing icon. | ||
2. We run `npx @db-ui/gif --src . --fontName test` | ||
3. This will create some font files. For this example we need `fonts/all/test.woff2` | ||
4. We use [FontForge](https://fontforge.org/) to open the `test.woff2` | ||
5. We will save the current font as `.sfd` format like `test.sfd`. Then we change the font name via FontForge settings to something like `test_bold` and save another file as `test_bold.sfd`. | ||
6. Next we scroll to the bottom of the `test_bold` font inside FontForge and change the positions of the points inside the glyph. In this case we use the empty space between the rectangles to widen them. | ||
7. After this we will create a font from both the `test.sfd` and `test_bold.sfd` as `.ufo` file. **Warning** the SVG might get redrawn by `@db-ui/gif` you may need to fix issues (like the direction) in FontForge by using the "Element/Validation" setting. | ||
8. Next we need to create a `.designspace` file. This is a representation (XML) for how the axis works. Check the `test.designspace` for more information. | ||
9. Now we need to run `fontmake -m test.designspace -o variable --production-names --output-path test.ttf` | ||
10. Goto [this](https://opentype.js.org/glyph-inspector.html) website and open the `test.ttf`. You should change the `weight` of the icon with the slider provided. You may also see `index.html` and `index.css` to check how you use an axis inside HTML/CSS. |
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@font-face { | ||
font-family: "test"; | ||
src: url("test.ttf") format("truetype-variations"); | ||
} | ||
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.test { | ||
font-family: "test" !important; | ||
font-style: normal; | ||
-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; | ||
-moz-osx-font-smoothing: grayscale; | ||
} | ||
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.semi { | ||
font-variation-settings: "wght" 750; | ||
} | ||
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.max { | ||
font-variation-settings: "wght" 1000; | ||
} |
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<!doctype html> | ||
<html lang="en"> | ||
<head> | ||
<meta charset="UTF-8" /> | ||
<title>test</title> | ||
<link rel="stylesheet" href="index.css" /> | ||
</head> | ||
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<body> | ||
<div class="icons"> | ||
<ul> | ||
<li class="class-icon"> | ||
<i class="test">test</i> | ||
<span class="name">test default</span> | ||
</li> | ||
<li class="class-icon"> | ||
<i class="test semi">test</i> | ||
<span class="name">test weight semi</span> | ||
</li> | ||
<li class="class-icon"> | ||
<i class="test max">test</i> | ||
<span class="name">test weight max</span> | ||
</li> | ||
</ul> | ||
</div> | ||
</body> | ||
</html> |
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<?xml version='1.0' encoding='UTF-8'?> | ||
<designspace format="4.0"> | ||
<axes> | ||
<axis tag="wght" name="weight" minimum="0" maximum="1000" default="0"/> | ||
</axes> | ||
<sources> | ||
<source filename="test.ufo" name="master.test.bold.0" familyname="test" stylename="light"> | ||
<lib copy="1"/> | ||
<groups copy="1"/> | ||
<features copy="1"/> | ||
<info copy="1"/> | ||
<location> | ||
<dimension name="weight" xvalue="0"/> | ||
</location> | ||
</source> | ||
<source filename="test_bold.ufo" familyname="test" stylename="bold"> | ||
<location> | ||
<dimension name="weight" xvalue="1000"/> | ||
</location> | ||
</source> | ||
</sources> | ||
</designspace> |
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SplineFontDB: 3.2 | ||
FontName: test | ||
FullName: test | ||
FamilyName: test | ||
Weight: Book | ||
Version: 1.0 | ||
ItalicAngle: 0 | ||
UnderlinePosition: 10 | ||
UnderlineWidth: 0 | ||
Ascent: 1000 | ||
Descent: 0 | ||
InvalidEm: 0 | ||
sfntRevision: 0x00010000 | ||
LayerCount: 2 | ||
Layer: 0 1 "Hinten" 1 | ||
Layer: 1 1 "Vorne" 0 | ||
XUID: [1021 432 367290026 18882] | ||
StyleMap: 0x0040 | ||
FSType: 0 | ||
OS2Version: 4 | ||
OS2_WeightWidthSlopeOnly: 0 | ||
OS2_UseTypoMetrics: 1 | ||
CreationTime: 1724240026 | ||
ModificationTime: 1724241070 | ||
PfmFamily: 17 | ||
TTFWeight: 400 | ||
TTFWidth: 5 | ||
LineGap: 0 | ||
VLineGap: 0 | ||
Panose: 2 0 5 3 0 0 0 0 0 0 | ||
OS2TypoAscent: 1000 | ||
OS2TypoAOffset: 0 | ||
OS2TypoDescent: 0 | ||
OS2TypoDOffset: 0 | ||
OS2TypoLinegap: 90 | ||
OS2WinAscent: 1090 | ||
OS2WinAOffset: 0 | ||
OS2WinDescent: 0 | ||
OS2WinDOffset: 0 | ||
HheadAscent: 1000 | ||
HheadAOffset: 0 | ||
HheadDescent: 0 | ||
HheadDOffset: 0 | ||
OS2SubXSize: 634 | ||
OS2SubYSize: 700 | ||
OS2SubXOff: 0 | ||
OS2SubYOff: 140 | ||
OS2SupXSize: 634 | ||
OS2SupYSize: 700 | ||
OS2SupXOff: 0 | ||
OS2SupYOff: 480 | ||
OS2StrikeYSize: 49 | ||
OS2StrikeYPos: 258 | ||
OS2Vendor: 'PfEd' | ||
OS2CodePages: 00000001.00000000 | ||
OS2UnicodeRanges: 00000000.00000000.00000000.00000000 | ||
Lookup: 4 0 1 "'liga' Standard-Ligaturen in Lateinisch Nachschlagetabelle 0" { "'liga' Standard-Ligaturen in Lateinisch Nachschlagetabelle 0 Subtabelle" } [' RQD' ('DFLT' <'dflt' > 'latn' <'dflt' > ) 'liga' ('DFLT' <'dflt' > 'latn' <'dflt' > ) ] | ||
DEI: 91125 | ||
ShortTable: maxp 16 | ||
1 | ||
0 | ||
5 | ||
10 | ||
2 | ||
0 | ||
0 | ||
2 | ||
0 | ||
10 | ||
10 | ||
0 | ||
255 | ||
0 | ||
0 | ||
0 | ||
EndShort | ||
LangName: 1033 "" "" "Regular" "test" "" "Version 1.0" "" "" "" "" "Generated by svg2ttf from Fontello project." "http://fontello.com" | ||
Encoding: UnicodeFull | ||
UnicodeInterp: none | ||
NameList: AGL For New Fonts | ||
DisplaySize: -48 | ||
AntiAlias: 1 | ||
FitToEm: 0 | ||
WinInfo: 1113628 38 13 | ||
BeginChars: 1114114 5 | ||
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StartChar: .notdef | ||
Encoding: 1114112 -1 0 | ||
GlifName: _notdef | ||
Width: 0 | ||
GlyphClass: 1 | ||
Flags: W | ||
LayerCount: 2 | ||
Fore | ||
Validated: 1 | ||
EndChar | ||
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StartChar: test | ||
Encoding: 1114113 -1 1 | ||
GlifName: test | ||
Width: 1000 | ||
GlyphClass: 1 | ||
Flags: WO | ||
LayerCount: 2 | ||
Fore | ||
SplineSet | ||
250 500 m 1,0,-1 | ||
250 750 l 1,1,-1 | ||
375 750 l 1,2,-1 | ||
375 250 l 1,3,-1 | ||
250 250 l 1,4,-1 | ||
250 500 l 1,0,-1 | ||
625 500 m 1,5,-1 | ||
625 750 l 1,6,-1 | ||
750 750 l 1,7,-1 | ||
750 250 l 1,8,-1 | ||
625 250 l 1,9,-1 | ||
625 500 l 1,5,-1 | ||
EndSplineSet | ||
LCarets2: 3 0 0 0 | ||
Ligature2: "'liga' Standard-Ligaturen in Lateinisch Nachschlagetabelle 0 Subtabelle" t e s t | ||
EndChar | ||
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StartChar: t | ||
Encoding: 116 116 2 | ||
GlifName: t | ||
Width: 0 | ||
GlyphClass: 1 | ||
Flags: W | ||
LayerCount: 2 | ||
Fore | ||
Validated: 1 | ||
EndChar | ||
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StartChar: e | ||
Encoding: 101 101 3 | ||
GlifName: e | ||
Width: 0 | ||
GlyphClass: 1 | ||
Flags: W | ||
LayerCount: 2 | ||
Fore | ||
Validated: 1 | ||
EndChar | ||
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StartChar: s | ||
Encoding: 115 115 4 | ||
GlifName: s | ||
Width: 0 | ||
GlyphClass: 1 | ||
Flags: W | ||
LayerCount: 2 | ||
Fore | ||
Validated: 1 | ||
EndChar | ||
EndChars | ||
EndSplineFont |
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languagesystem DFLT dflt; | ||
languagesystem latn dflt; | ||
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# GSUB | ||
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lookup ligaStandardLigatureninLateinischNachschlagetabelle0 { | ||
lookupflag 0; | ||
sub \t \e \s \t by \test; | ||
} ligaStandardLigatureninLateinischNachschlagetabelle0; | ||
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feature RQD { | ||
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script DFLT; | ||
language dflt ; | ||
lookup ligaStandardLigatureninLateinischNachschlagetabelle0; | ||
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script latn; | ||
language dflt ; | ||
lookup ligaStandardLigatureninLateinischNachschlagetabelle0; | ||
} RQD; | ||
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feature liga { | ||
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script DFLT; | ||
language dflt ; | ||
lookup ligaStandardLigatureninLateinischNachschlagetabelle0; | ||
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script latn; | ||
language dflt ; | ||
lookup ligaStandardLigatureninLateinischNachschlagetabelle0; | ||
} liga; |
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