[Student-projects] Web Interface for FontCompare

[Mayank Jha]

Thanks for the review,
I would love to have support for the automated rendering tool, in this web
interface.
FontCompare does use harfbuzz for text rendering for a font, so I do not
think there will be any difficulty in doing that. FontForge on the other
hand uses Pango as their rendering engine. I am well versed with the tests
for rendering which harfbuzz has to offer, which is the reason I omitted it
from my aesthetic analyzer.
I have been using django for quite a while now, so that would not be a
problem :) . Would love to see this happening!

Cheers!


On Sun, Mar 16, 2014 at 8:48 PM, Vasudev Kamath <kamathvasudev at gmail.com>wrote:

>
> Hi Mayank,
>
> Mayank Jha <mayank25080562 at gmail.com> writes:
>
> > Hello All,
> > I was planning to make a web interface for a font aesthetics analyzer
> > for Indic scripts, FontCompare. FontCompare 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.
>
> Interesting tool.
>
> >
> > 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.
>
> Yes this can be helpful for font developers.
>
> >
> > 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.
>
> Here I would like to add some ideas from my side. We had a Gsoc project
> last year to created automated render testing tool for Fonts [1]. It
> would be great if you can add support for this tool too in the Developer
> testing arena. The tool will use harfbuzz and uses test data to test the
> font rendering and generates output with information which doesn't
> render properly. Tool isn't fontforge related but I think can be good
> for integrating with web interface.
>
> What do you think?
>
> [1] https://github.com/smc/Automated-Rendering-Testing
>
> >
> > 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.
>
> I can take up the Python part, though I've not used Django and for Font
> part I think Santhosh can mentor. Santhosh what do you think?
>
> @all mentors do share your view also :-)
>
> Cheers
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