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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 A New Type Testing Tool 
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 Okay, but — Font Gauntlet 
 Axis Praxis 
 Crowbar 
 cyreal Font Inspector fontTools 
 Font-Testing-Page 
 Hyperglot 
 

5. 
 Focused on Testing & Evaluation 

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 

8. No Installation Needed
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 Adaptable 
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10. Keep typographic knowledge outside code
11. Unicode Ranges
12. eg. 
 
 Combine all Latins into a single group
13. Per-Test Defaults
14. Per-Test Specimen Strings
15. 
 Secure 
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16. No fonts or data is exposed over the internet
17. Your browser stores it all
18. 
 Shareable 
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19. Your browser stores it all…
20. …so you can share on demand.
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
23. Demo
25. • App Preview • Family Preview • Included Glyphs • Localised Forms • Multi-Line • Single-Line • Spacing & Kerning • Unicode Support • Waterfall • Error Module
26. More tests lined up
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
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