README.md

Vazirmatn Font Builder

The script tool for building files for vazirmatn. By default this tool clones the repository of Roboto-Classic Variable font into the folder latin and then merge it into Vazirmatn. However, You can use the --no-latin option to skip this step.

Requirements

• fontforge https://fontforge.org/
• python3
• python3-fontforge
• fontmake https://github.com/googlefonts/fontmake
• fonttools (pyftsubset) https://github.com/fonttools/fonttools
• gftools
• git (access to fetch Roboto Variable repository https://github.com/googlefonts/Roboto-Classic)
• sed
• zip

How it works

Make sure you have installed all the requirements. For Debian distro you can use this command:

$ sudo apt install fontforge python3-fontforge fontmake fonttools gftools zip sed git

Next:

$ git clone https://github.com/rastikerdar/vazirmatn.git
$ cd vazirmatn/
$ make all

make all means in order:

make fonts
make rd-fonts
make zip

You can use command bash scripts/make-fonts.sh to customize the build process. Options for make-fonts.sh:

--repo-dir=    # default is current directory
--temp-dir=     # default is "/tmp/vazirmatn-font-output-temp"
--output-dir=  # default is current directory
--rd-font
--only-ttf
--no-misc
--no-latin
--no-hinting
--no-temp-clean
--no-variable
--no-css

Tip: I usually use an in-Ram location for --temp-dir= option.

During the development I usually use this command from the root of the repository:

$ ./scripts/make-fonts.sh --temp-dir="/ramdisk/tmp/" --output-dir="path/to/test_folder/" --no-latin --no-misc --no-hinting --only-ttf --no-css --no-temp-clean

By using the option --repo-dir the script can be run from anywhere. If you only want to see the main report messages generated by the script itself, append 2> /dev/null to the end of your command. Note that this will prevent errors from being displayed.

Notes

• Maybe it is better to convert all these scripts into a unified Python script (module) to make the build process platform-independent.

• The build process depends on fontforge and python3-fontforge which are not in PyPI. Because of this we cannot run all scripts in a Python virtual environment (venv).

License: MIT