OpenType Notes

Contents

• About
• Notebook Table of Contents
• Contributing
• Licenses

About

The goal of this project is to serve as a community developed interactive reference for the OpenType specification, typeface source code specifications, and free software tools used to develop fonts.

The project uses executable jupyter notebook files to:

• serve as a guide to existing OpenType specification, typeface source code specification, and free typeface software library documentation
• document common free typeface development library use areas and provide a central repository of source code snippets that demonstrate how a developer might approach these use cases
• support simple source code modifications within the jupyter notebook file for more detailed exploration of each topic area
• support a remote source execution approach that does not require the user to download, install, create and activate virtual execution environments, or execute any files locally (notebook files are executed on Colaboratory)
• release all source code examples as free software for use under the Apache v2.0 License

The project is open to contributions from anyone, and we highly encourage your feedback and involvement!

Notebooks

• OpenType Tables
  • CFF
  • cmap
  • cvt
  • fpgm
  • glyf
  • head
  • hhea
  • hmtx
  • loca
  • maxp
  • name
  • OS/2
  • post
  • prep

Contributing

Please review the CONTRIBUTING.md documentation for details about how to participate in the development of this project.

Licenses

Text contents are released under the CC BY 4.0 International License.

Source code contents are released under the Apache License v2.0.