[Student-projects] Web Interface for FontCompare

[Mayank Jha]

Hello All,
I was planning to make a web interface for a font aesthetics analyzer for
Indic scripts, FontCompare.
FontCompare<https://github.com/fontforge/fontforge/tree/master/pycontrib>is
a plugin for fontforge, which provides assistance to the font
developers
in assessing the aesthetics of a font, based on the standard set of
parameters and their values. It uses the python scripting extension of
fontforge. It was developed by me, as a part of Google Summer of Code 2013,
under the mentoring organization Ankur India.


*Implementation Details:*
I plan to make a full fleged web interface, in Django which would be an
online service where font developers can test their fonts, and also users
can give feedbacks. So, overall it would be a two way portal, wherein font
developers get a chance to hear from the ones who are using their fonts,
and also roll out new fonts for people to use and see.

*Font User feedback:-*
The user would be given a chance to use the font, by typing the fonts on a
WSYWIG styled editor, and give their remarks about the fonts. These remarks
would be conveyed to the font developers, and acted upon if found
worthwhile.


*Font Developers testing Arena:-*
Here font developers can upload their fonts and they would be shown the
results of the aesthetic analysis, done by fontcompare script. Results such
as Glyph consistency, GPOS/GSUB completeness, similarity etc. are conveyed
in form of scores, to the developer.

In general it would be a real help, and it would eliminate the dearth of
good quality open type fonts for Indic scripts, which was the main motive
of developing FontCompare. By making a web interface this would indirectly
propel the creation, of good quality stylish fonts for Indic scripts, which
is limited to 2-3 per language as of now!
Would love to have someone mentor this project with me as the student.


-- 
Mayank Jha
http://mjnovice.wordpress.com/
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