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Stephen Nixon (@arrowtype)

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recursive

Recursive Mono & Sans is a variable font family for code & UI

shantell-sans

Shantell Sans, from Shantell Martin, is a marker-style font built for creative expression, typographic play, and animation.

type-x

Test your fonts across the web by easily overriding fonts on any webpage.

recursive-code-config

Customize your own version of Recursive for code. Build your own, or find the built fonts in releases within the main Recursive repo.

fonttools-intro

An introduction to FontTools & font development

spacing

A collection of resources & recommendations that are helpful for spacing

NLI-test

A quick test of non-linear interpolation for variable fonts, using a “hidden” source as quadratic offcurves.

varfont-prep

RoboFont scripts to help clean up working fonts for variable font builds

drawbot--loop-through-font-glyphs

DrawBot scripts to loop through all glyphs of a built font binary (TTF or OTF), e.g. for use in proofing & SVG icon font conversion

recursive-minisite

A minisite for Recursive Sans & Mono, a new variable font from ArrowType

recursive-theme

A WIP theme for VS Code. Based on Night Owl, but with chiller colors & tweaked italics.

shantell-sans-specimen

A minisite for Shantell Sans, from Shantell Martin, which is a marker-style font built for creative expression, typographic play, and animation.

typelab-2021

A tutorial on the basics of shell scripting for font builds, for TypeLab 2021

arrowtype-glyphs-scripts

Scripts for random stuff in GlyphsApp

drawbot-vscode

A demo of how to use DrawBot in VS Code rather than its standalone app

80forty

The utility of an 80% keyboard in a 40% layout

blog

Notes on type design & development

vf-slnt-test

Tests for browser support of CSS font-style property & variable fonts

name-sans-roadmap

This repo is a public roadmap for Name Sans, currently in-progress and available at Future Fonts

bern

Name Sans, made Swiss

ufo-workshop-april_2021

A slide presentation put together to explain aspects of why & how I use UFOs in variable font design project.

vf-default-instance-test

A test for a font handling bug on macOS Catalina

web-font-test-templates

test your fonts

overlapping-axis-test

A test of what happens if two axes in a variable font have an overlapping functionality.

charsets

A place to store & share useful starter character sets for type design in RoboFont.

svelte-slider

A simple example of a slider component for SvelteJS

advice

Links to go along with a lecture of advice to college students

rf-guides

A few very simple scripts to quickly manage guidelines in RoboFont.

safari-opsz-test

agl-naming-script

Applying AGL (Adobe Glyph List) names to a font based on Unicode values assigned to glyphs

keebio-nyquist-minimalist-case

Plate/case designs for the Keebio Nyquist (Rev 3.5)

type-blog

This is the start of a blog. For now, it is just a repo.

arrowtype-robofont-helpers

Scripts I find useful in RoboFont. Many come from the forum or other public sources. I try to include credits in code documentation.