LGM 2014: Font Bakery

"Font Bakery is a continuous integration server for fonts developed collaboratively using Git. In addition to a standard UFO compilation process, written in Python and driven by Fontforge, it offers a battery of tests that prove quality of sources and binaries, and point to future work to be done. This presentation will conclude with future possibilities and invite discussion about the future of collaborative type design. 100% Python, the build and tests are easy to modify and extend."
- http://libregraphicsmeeting.org/2014/program/

https://lwn.net/Articles/593614/

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1. Font Bakery
2. github.com/googlefonts/fontbakery NOT AN OFFICIAL GOOGLE PRODUCT
3. Why? Update 1,000s of fonts – no regressions Quantify quality Publish new fonts faster Encourage direct community contribution Discuss issues with maintainers Familiar Git push/pull interactions
4. Continuous Integration Keep font source in Git Push your own updates Merge other people’s pull requests Automatic build and test, every time Get email when you broke it
5. How? Python Flask web application Celery (redis) queuing
6. XML Font Sources Binary Sources TTX github.com/behdad /fonttools Drawing Sources UFO unifiedfontobject.org
7. Test Sources and Binaries robofab.org fontforge.github.io github.com/behdad/fonttools github.com/davelab6/pyfontaine
10. Only store Masters, generate Instances with Metapolator Compile with Adobe Font Development Kit, when libre (soon) Test typefaces, not just fonts Roadmap
11. Roadmap
12. Михайло Кашин Віталій Волхов Frank Trampe Robert Martinez @GoogleFonts
13. Thanks!