A New Type Testing Tool

An early look into a new tool for quality testing fonts and preparing them for release. Slides from a session at Typelab Asia (part of Typographics 2021) where we presented a live demo of the tool and talked about the design & development journey of this yet-to-be-named tool being developed by Miranj and guided by Universal Thirst.

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1. 

   A New Type Testing Tool
   

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2. 🤝
   

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4. 

   Okay, but — Font Gauntlet
   
   
   

   Axis Praxis
   

   Crowbar
   

   cyreal
   
   
   Font Inspector
   
   
   fontTools
   

   Font-Testing-Page
   

   Hyperglot
   
 

   

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5. 

   Focused on Testing & Evaluation
   

   

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6. 

   South Asian Typefaces
   

   Consonant-Vowel Ligatures
   
   
   Conjunct-Vowel Ligatures
   
   
   Included Conjuncts
   
   
   All Conjuncts
   
   
   Half-Forms
   
   
   Pre-base Consonant Forms
   

   Post-base Consonant Forms
   
   
   Below-base Consonant Forms
   
   
   Extremes (Conjuncts) / Edge Case Shaping
   

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   Variable Fonts Support
   

   

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8. No Installation Needed
   

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9. 

   Adaptable
   
   
   

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10. Keep typographic knowledge
    outside code
    
    
    

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11. Unicode
    Ranges
    

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12. eg.
    
    
    

    

    Combine all
    Latins into a
    single group
    

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13. Per-Test
    Defaults
    

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14. Per-Test
    Specimen
    Strings
    

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15. 

    Secure
    
    
    

    🔒
    

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16. No fonts or data is exposed
    over the internet
    
    
    

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17. Your browser
    stores it all
    

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18. 

    Shareable
    
    
    

    🗣
    

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19. Your browser
    stores it all…
    

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20. …so you can
    share on
    demand.
    

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21. 

    A New Type Testing Tool
    

    ✨
    

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22. • Testing & Evaluation
    
    
    • South Asian Typefaces
    
    
    • Variable Font Support
    
    
    • Web-based
    
    
    • User-Configurable
    
    
    • No data collection
    
    
    • Shareable
    
    
    • O
    ff
    line
    

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23. Demo
    

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25. • App Preview
    
    
    • Family Preview
    
    
    • Included Glyphs
    
    
    • Localised Forms
    
    
    • Multi-Line
    
    
    • Single-Line
    
    
    • Spacing & Kerning
    
    
    • Unicode Support
    
    
    • Waterfall
    
    
    • Error Module
    

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26. More tests lined up
    

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27. • Custom Character Groups
    
    
    • Included Ligatures (liga, dlig, etc.)
    
    
    • Fractions
    
    
    • Ordinals
    
    
    • Common Conjuncts
    
    
    • All Conjuncts
    
    
    • Consonant-Vowel Ligatures
    
    
    • Conjunct-Vowel Ligature
    
    
    • Half-forms
    
    
    • Pre-base Consonant Forms
    
    
    • Below-base Consonant Forms
    
    
    • Post-base Consonant Forms
    
    
    • Test Extremes (Conjuncts) / Edge
    Case Shaping Test
    
    
    • Mark/Anchor Positioning
    
    
    • Numeric: numr, dnom, sups, subs,
    zero, tnum, pnum, onum, lnum
    

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28. 

    Credits
    

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29. Universal Thirst
    
    
    Souvik Das Gupta
    

    Prateek Rungta
    
    
    Paul Strum
    
    
    Prateek Rungta
    
    
    Svelte
    

    Opentype.js
    Commission
    
    
    Discovery, Planning & Architecture
    

    Design
    
    
    Development
    
    
    Open Source
    

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