A New Page for Fonts
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I just finished the Pepper&Carrot new page for sharing our Fonts!
A decade ago, libre comic fonts were hard to find, especially with good accent support. So, translators, contributors and I edited & maintained our own to fill the gap.
Check them out: https://www.peppercarrot.com/en/fonts/index.html
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faket@veganism.social
Gosh, it’s like DaFont, but better ! :D
★slatian@pleroma.envs.net
Thank you :drgn_heart:
★TomasHradcky@mstdn.social
Many thanks.
★thejikz@infosec.exchange
That is simply fontastic. :’D
★unchartedworlds@scicomm.xyz
Wow, these are lovely, thank you!
★ArneBab@rollenspiel.social
Nice! Thank you!
★aurochs@todon.eu
That is awesome!!
★blind_mapmaker@eldritch.cafe
That's really helpful. Thanks for creating and thanks for sharing!
★gekitsu@toot.cat
oh wow, you did a lot of work on these as well – you are a man of many hats.
★windigo@mastodon.sdf.org
These look SO GOOD. Thank you for sharing!
★VANTABlack2000@mastodon.gamedev.place
The fonts look really good.
I will have to keep these in mind next time I am looking for good fonts to use in my projects.
★marcel@waldvogel.family
★Great, thanks!
nim@mastodon.tetaneutral.net
I love those, thanks !
Could you add releases (and/or git tags) to https://framagit.org/peppercarrot/fonts so that we can package that properly in downstream software distributions ?
I can see a 5.2 version in https://aur.archlinux.org/cgit/aur.git/tree/PKGBUILD?h=peppercarrot-fonts but I don't get where it's coming from :/
xobb@mstdn.social
Thanks, those fonts look awesome 👏🏼
Are they latin-only? If some if them support other alphabets like Cyrillic or something you may consider adding that information to the page as well.
xobb@mstdn.social
I know you can see that on the images, although it's difficult to decrypt that the symbols in the last lines are for Cyrillic if you don't know where to look.
davidrevoy
@xobb True, right now my script for the backend generation of thumbnail is pretty simple (but did cost me a full night to code and brainstorm). My simple hack here was to ask ImageMagick to print two Cyrrilic line for each font, and if the font can't, it prints in white. Then ImageMagick can also auto trim the white around the picture...
To detect properly the support, I would have probably to install a new FONT CLI dependency and another one to output that to JSON I could retrieve on the web.
davidrevoy
@xobb All in all, to say I'll cannot invest time on that, because it's a big TODO for a little convenience. This page already exploded my personal budget on the comic production. But contributions are welcome, the code is open https://framagit.org/peppercarrot/fonts/-/blob/27f97610b0ea7235d58dc69ec1fea7d89c66e659/generate_font_preview.sh
nicorikken@mastodon.nl
thanks for providing more context to the fonts and increasing discoverability. I already looked at the fonts for #AdaZangemann translations, which need handdrawn letters for headings in different scripts. https://git.fsfe.org/FSFE/ada-zangemann/issues/156#issuecomment-40935 I'd wish for an even greater script coverage. Any suggestions are welcome!
davidrevoy
@nicorikken I see, and cool for your contributions on Ada&Zangemann.
★We met the same issue, and except rare exception like Noto; the 'all-in-one solution' don't exist. Our repo has far more fonts, workarounds, etc, look at the directory at root of https://framagit.org/peppercarrot/fonts
But for sure the most advanced one of our set and closer to a all-in-one would be Lavi (in latin directory, but could be also in Cyrillic now).
nicorikken@mastodon.nl
Ok, good to know that Lavi is the furthest. It could fit very well for the book cover subtitle. The headings and dropcaps in the book were drawn in serif, so ideally I'd use a different font. Maybe Handserah. I've considered converting existing header images into a font and expanding that. But that seems to be quite an undertaking.
★eoinoneill@mastodon.gamedev.place
Great work as always David. A very appealing looking font set here!
★fasnix@iceshrimp.de
They look great, thanks for sharing!
Would it be ok to use them on a website not related to comics specifically?
(I'm planning to create a website about different "constructed language".)
davidrevoy
@fasnix Yes, you are free to use them in many way. The majority on the list are SIL Open Font Licensed and 1 Gpl v3. All in all, you can use them freely, the OFL page has a FAQ about usage if you need to be sure of some details: https://openfontlicense.org/how-to-use-ofl-fonts/
★icg937@mstdn.social
I really like using and reading new fonts, especially if they're free and not so mainstream.
But, I wonder. Is the letter "ñ" supported as well? :blobcatthinking2:
davidrevoy
@icg937 Thank you. Good suggestion, I added the Ñ and ñ to my preview generation (end of the line with accents). All the fonts have them :) the commit: https://framagit.org/peppercarrot/fonts/-/commit/27f97610b0ea7235d58dc69ec1fea7d89c66e659 and the Fonts page should have it propagated by now (force a page refresh in case your pictures still have no ñ )
★raphael@post.lurk.org
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