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I might have accidentally built a font editor.

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Dan Hollick1 month ago

It derives the strokes from a base font (Inter) and builds parameters for all the properties. You can edit all the glyphs with a specific property at the same time or edit any property on a single glyph

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Conor McCarter1 month ago

one of my favorite fonts (parabole display) was created by a student who flipped the counter and stems of the non-display typeface. i wonder if this tool could help me try that too :)

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Dan Hollick1 month ago

Oh that's cool, hadn't seen this.

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Evil Rabbit1 month ago

this is insane 🤯

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Jeff Broderick1 month ago

LOL "accidentally". "One prompt later and this is what it gave me?! I asked for a ice cream recipe!" Seriously tho, insanely cool looking, cant wait to try it out!

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Dan Hollick1 month ago

Haha told you I was working on some vector tooling.

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Jeff Broderick1 month ago

So stinking cool! The love all the variable naming too, that’s one of the hardest things for me: what do I call this….”shoulder” or “apex”.

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John Bai1 month ago

You’re not supposed to do that dude

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MDS1 month ago

😮‍💨

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Floris van Driel1 month ago

Aah the editing controls are cool. Nice combo of some specific glyphs plugins. Does it also have something for drawing paths or always based of existing contours?

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Dan Hollick1 month ago

Right now you can only edit existing glyphs. I think my approach is this is for people who don't want to make a font from scratch.

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Asher Godfrey1 month ago

nothing to see here...just editable fonts 🔥

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Dan Hollick1 month ago

I think only font people know that this isn't how font editors normally work haha

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Bram Pitoyo1 month ago

It’s not how font editors normally work, but it’s not a font editor (IMO). It’s a font *customiser*. It’s fascinating to see it go from “here are the strokes” to “strokes have these parameters”. How does it derive those parameters? (Could potentially be a good kerning tool?)

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Dan Hollick1 month ago

You'd be surprised - it's approaching a full fledged editor but the idea is that you shouldn't need to start from scratch. It builds the glyphs based on recipes which use parameters.

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Bram Pitoyo1 month ago

I imagine that the remixer can’t expose parameters that aren’t built into the file? E.g. you can’t give Inter serifs or choose between bracketed/unbracketed, etc. (Unless…?)

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Dan Hollick1 month ago

Totally can - working on adding serifs next to see how it'll feel. But yeah, it has to be built into the recipe for each glyph.

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James McDonald1 month ago

🤯

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charlota1 month ago

whoaa

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James Lyons1 month ago

Wouldn't be upset if this accidentally gets released someday too

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Joe Lee1 month ago

Ooh the previous values in the sliders are a nice touch

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Dan Hollick1 month ago

yeah, helpful to quickly reset a single field.

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Lars Hoeijmans1 month ago

This is one of the coolest things I've seen someone accidentally build

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Dan Hollick1 month ago

I mean it's been a very slow moving accident

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maya1 month ago

!!!!!!!!

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Dan Hollick1 month ago

¿¿¿¿¿

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Aaron1 month ago

accidents happen, its okay

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Muskonomy1 month ago

How much token u use per day?

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matt1 month ago

casual

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Josh1 month ago

incredible work. did you build this just on cursor?

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Dan Hollick1 month ago

Yep, mainly all in a single chat haha.

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Josh1 month ago

very nice you’ve inspired me to give cursor another shot lol!

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ty1 month ago

love this

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Damian Chmiel1 month ago

things done by accident are mostly the best ones

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Will King1 month ago

Paging @kostyafarber_

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Patel Meet1 month ago

wow

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maxwell1 month ago

oh thats really sick

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zanwei.guo1 month ago

interesting, might give a try as well

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Jack O'Regan Kenny 🇮🇪1 month ago

Happens to the best of us

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Davi1 month ago

share it with the world

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Josh Hone1 month ago

so cool!!

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Micka1 month ago

Keep building it. I want this.

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Max 🇺🇦1 month ago

That's one sexy accident!

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David Mann1 month ago

only you can accidentally make a beautiful, full featured font editor

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Azouzi1 month ago

haha these custom design tools are getting better by the day .. to the point where we get to "accidently" create them .. that's awesome!

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Isaiah1 month ago

ah and i see you built your own content aware sliders, very cool 🙂↕️

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