Create and manipulate fonts using JavaScript

http://www.pluminjs.com/

by potomak • 11 years ago

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louisremi• 11 years ago

Here is the introduction blog post: https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/599698621/prototypo-str...

fdb• 11 years ago

Plumin is a light wrapper around paper.js [1] and my opentype.js library[2], which can parse and write OpenType fonts in pure JavaScript.

Plumin is nice to build fonts from scratch. If you're interested in taking an existing font and manipulating its shape or metrics, consider using opentype.js directly.

[1] http://paperjs.org/

[2] https://github.com/nodebox/opentype.js

RussianCow2• 11 years ago

What is the use case for something like this? I think it's really, really cool that this is possible, but I'm having trouble coming up with a scenario in which I'd actually want to do this.

jarcane• 11 years ago

I know of at least one site (FilmOn) that uses this kind of font substitution for rendering UI elements.

RussianCow2• 11 years ago

Is that done on the client-side or on the server? It makes sense to me if you want to programmatically generate icon fonts, but I just don't see the use case for doing this in the browser. Unless of course you were building an in-browser font creator tool. :)

Regardless, this is a really cool idea!

systemtrigger• 11 years ago

A SaaS could use it to distort content, and remove the distortion for paid accounts.

m_mueller• 11 years ago

by distorting on client side? well..

joshontheweb• 11 years ago

Just being able to adjust the font-weight of a font that doesn't have multiple font-weights is something I've wanted to do many times before.

bucketsofdirt• 11 years ago

Maybe something like what this guy was trying to do[1].

[1] https://github.com/christopherwoodall/fontface-Captcha

EdSharkey• 11 years ago

Blob url's set for @font-face src! What a neat hack.

sparaker• 11 years ago

Looks pretty awesome. Do you have any benchmarks on how fast this is on a mobile?

politician• 11 years ago

Web Font licensing is such a completely painful mess that I would wish/hope/love if this software came with a license that constrains the terms of use on any fonts produced with it to Creative Commons, or (what the hell) GPL.

Create and manipulate fonts using JavaScript

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