Stephen Nixon

recursive. Recursive Mono & Sans is a variable font family for code & UI

shantell-sans. Shantell Sans, from Shantell Martin, is a marker-style font built for creative expression, typographic play, and animation.

type-x. Test your fonts across the web by easily overriding fonts on any webpage.

recursive-code-config. Customize your own version of Recursive for code. Build your own, or find the built fonts in releases within the main Recursive repo.

fonttools-intro. An introduction to FontTools & font development

spacing. A collection of resources & recommendations that are helpful for spacing

NLI-test. A quick test of non-linear interpolation for variable fonts, using a “hidden” source as quadratic offcurves.

varfont-prep. RoboFont scripts to help clean up working fonts for variable font builds

recursive-theme. A WIP theme for VS Code. Based on Night Owl, but with chiller colors & tweaked italics.

drawbot--loop-through-font-glyphs. DrawBot scripts to loop through all glyphs of a built font binary (TTF or OTF), e.g. for use in proofing & SVG icon font conversion

recursive-minisite. A minisite for Recursive Sans & Mono, a new variable font from ArrowType

shantell-sans-specimen. A minisite for Shantell Sans, from Shantell Martin, which is a marker-style font built for creative expression, typographic play, and animation.

arrowtype-glyphs-scripts. Scripts for random stuff in GlyphsApp

typelab-2021. A tutorial on the basics of shell scripting for font builds, for TypeLab 2021

drawbot-vscode. A demo of how to use DrawBot in VS Code rather than its standalone app

blog. Notes on type design & development

80forty. The utility of an 80% keyboard in a 40% layout

vf-slnt-test. Tests for browser support of CSS font-style property & variable fonts

HOI-test. A private archive for tests done to explore higher-order interpolation / non-linear interpolation

ufo-workshop-april_2021. A slide presentation put together to explain aspects of why & how I use UFOs in variable font design project.

web-font-test-templates. test your fonts

ttfautohint-py. Python wrapper for ttfautohint, a free auto-hinter for TrueType fonts

overlapping-axis-test. A test of what happens if two axes in a variable font have an overlapping functionality.

svelte-slider. A simple example of a slider component for SvelteJS

charsets. A place to store & share useful starter character sets for type design in RoboFont.

vf-default-instance-test. A test for a font handling bug on macOS Catalina

arrowtype-robofont-helpers. Scripts I find useful in RoboFont. Many come from the forum or other public sources. I try to include credits in code documentation.

fontbakery. Font quality assurance tool written in Python 3.

opentype-cookbook. An introduction to OpenType features for type designers.

agl-naming-script. Applying AGL (Adobe Glyph List) names to a font based on Unicode values assigned to glyphs

Mekkablue-Glyphs-Scripts. Python scripts for the Glyphs font editor

type-blog. This is the start of a blog. For now, it is just a repo.

safari-opsz-test. HTML

fonttools. A library to manipulate font files from Python.

keebio-nyquist-minimalist-case. Plate/case designs for the Keebio Nyquist (Rev 3.5)

RedHatFont. Red Hat's Open Source Fonts - Red Hat Display and Red Hat Text

advice. Links to go along with a lecture of advice to college students

gftools. Misc tools for working with the Google Fonts library

rf-guides. A few very simple scripts to quickly manage guidelines in RoboFont.

robofont-marx. Simple scripts to mark the status of glyphs in RoboFont

intel-one-mono. Intel One Mono font repository