Kiran Builder Typeface

Building a font from this image

Using https://fontforge.org/

Commands

Required:

• https://imagemagick.org/ (standard on Ubuntu)

Invert quantized images

for image in $(find . -wholename "./reference/quantized_png/*.png"); do convert $image -channel RGB -negate ./reference/quantized_inverted_png/$(basename $image);

Convert quantized images to bitmaps

for image in $(find . -wholename "./reference/quantized_inverted_png/*.png"); do convert $image ./reference/quantized_inverted_bmp/$(basename ${image%.*}).bmp; done

Trace bitmaps with potrace

for image in $(find . -wholename "./reference/quantized_inverted_bmp/*"); do potrace --svg $image -o "./reference/traced/$(basename ${image%.*}).svg"; d
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FontForge

Import SVGs

See https://fontforge.org/docs/tutorial/importexample.html, but click on a letter, Ctrl+Shift+I. Then, open it, scale it (Ctrl+\), move it, and move the end baseline.

Generate font

See https://fontforge.org/docs/tutorial/editexample7.html, but Ctrl+Shift+G in FontForge.

Preview font

You can use https://fontdrop.info/, and upload kiranbuilder.woff