> On Sep 3, 2014, at 6:43 PM, Matthew Flaschen <mflasc...@wikimedia.org> wrote:
> 
> WikiFont (which generates font file output from SVG source code).


tl:dr SVGs yay!

The problem was WikiFont did not generate itself (magic?) from svgs. The svgs 
had to be fairly painstakingly imported into a font forge project which was 
then used to generate the font.

The font forge importation workflow was sticky enough (importing svgs and 
mapping them, etc) that small visual tweaks (baseline offsets and such) ended 
up being made in the font forge project itself as well, thus diverging from the 
source svgs. 

I think this workflow stickiness was what led the designer to see the font 
forge project as canonical. 

So... the 2 scripts I wrote. 

One automates creating a font from a folder of svgs. Svgs are canonical as they 
should be, but hey, you want a font? You got it.

The second script, just for fun, reverses the process and creates a folder of 
svgs from the font.

I've been dogfooding these for the last week for a supplemental font the iOS 
app uses. 

I'll post them hopefully next week when I get a chance to document them. If you 
can't wait and are in the SF office stop by my desk and I can demo it in about 
2 minutes. 
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