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Written by Just van Rossum on 2025-01-30 at 10:33

New Fontra blog post:

https://blog.fontra.xyz/blog/font-overview/

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Written by Just van Rossum on 2025-01-29 at 09:19

Sooo, we started a Fontra Blog: https://blog.fontra.xyz/

The first post is a bit of a recap / state of Fontra summary. Future posts will be about features and ongoing development.

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Written by Just van Rossum on 2025-01-27 at 12:13

Another workable example/tutorial, using 11ty:

https://github.com/11ty/eleventy-base-blog

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Written by Just van Rossum on 2025-01-27 at 11:46

I came across this jekyll-based tutorial, and it seems to check all my boxes:

https://chadbaldwin.net/2021/03/14/how-to-build-a-sql-blog.html

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Written by Just van Rossum on 2025-01-27 at 11:20

Does anyone have recommendation for a fairly basic blog system with (some of) these characteristics:

can be hosted as GitHub Pages

simple-ish to setup and to create posts

an RSS feed would be very nice

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Written by Just van Rossum on 2025-01-26 at 18:47

A new Fontra Pak build is available at https://fontra.xyz/

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Written by Just van Rossum on 2025-01-26 at 18:45

@koeberlin has updated his Latin character sets: https://github.com/koeberlin/Latin-Character-Sets.

He kindly provided glyph name lists, which I could integrate into Fontra's shiny new glyph overview in no time.

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Written by Just van Rossum on 2025-01-23 at 07:53

No thank you.

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Written by Just van Rossum on 2025-01-18 at 14:41

The phrase “Why doesn’t software X have feature Y” is highly triggering to me, because it almost invariably comes from a sense of entitlement, if not straight-up aggression.

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Written by Just van Rossum on 2025-01-13 at 17:41

Thanks to quick testing and bug reporting by @boldmonday, there is now a FontGoggles 1.8.5 update that fixes showing UFO/designspace files on macOS 10.14.

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Written by Just van Rossum on 2025-01-13 at 08:56

Another big thank you goes to @behdad, who, by creating HarfBuzz, made one of the most important contributions to digital typography of the 21st century, if not of all time.

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Written by Just van Rossum on 2025-01-13 at 08:44

A big thank you goes to @khaled who issued releases for unicodedata2, HarfBuzz and uharfbuzz over the weekend, making this FontGoggles update possible.

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Written by Just van Rossum on 2025-01-13 at 08:03

FontGoggles 1.8.4 is out: https://github.com/justvanrossum/fontgoggles/releases

It is a minor update which adds support for Unicode 16, and includes the latest HarfBuzz.

Unfortunately I had to drop support for macOS 10.10 (Yosemite), as crucial dependencies no longer support it. FontGoggles 1.8.2 is the latest version that still works on macOS 10.10.

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