DesignWithFontforge.com

This is a book project, about how to design new typefaces with FontForge.

How To Contribute

If you wish to contribute to this website, you are very welcome to! Here are a few ways you can do so:

1. Report an issue for someone else to resolve, by clicking the ‘Issues’ button at the top of this page, in the main navigation bar.

2. Contribute a change directly, by forking it on GitHub and editing the plain text files, then send a pull request. (If that sounds unfamiliar, learn how with GitHub’s excellent interactive introduction).

3. Discuss general topics on the fontforge-devel email discussion list

License

The book and this site is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 3.0 Unported License.

How This Site Is Made

This site is made with the Jekyll content management system, and hosted on GitHub pages.

If you’re not familiar with GitHub, they have excellent help pages.

Directory Layout

• _layouts/*.html: HTML template files
• _includes/*.html: snippets of HTML that are included in pages and templates
• assets/: CSS, JS and image files
• _config.yml: Configuration for Jekyll (ignore this file)
• en-US/: the site’s contents, in US English

File Formats

Each page is in Markdown format, with a .md file extension. These files are converted into corresponding .html files by Jekyll when they start with these lines:

• published: if the page should not be published, set this to false
• layout: bookpage is the default
• weight: an integer value from 1 to 100 that effects the ordering of the page in the sidebar and homepage lists
• category: the category the page belongs in
• title: the page title used in the title tag and h1 of the page

Example:

    ---
    published: true
    layout: bookpage
    weight: 60
    category: Workflow
    title: Page Title
    ---

How to build the site

For Linux, ensure that ruby-dev is installed on your system: e.g. for Ubuntu 14.04:

sudo apt-get install ruby-dev

First install Jekyll, with gem:

sudo gem install jekyll

To see the site as it will appear after processing by Jekyll and review your edits live in a browser layout, run:

jekyll serve --watch

Now browse http://localhost:4000/.