jansindl3r/samewidther

A CLI to get words of same width in a given font

sameWidther

This is a tool for getting words of same visual width. It accepts OTF/TTF/UFO files and gets you random words of the same visual width, useful for example for type specimens.

installing

1. Install directly from this cloned repo. This way you will always get the most recent version. Navigate to the repo in your terminal and execute this command

   python setup.py install
   

2. Install this package via pip. This won't be updated that often but it offer more convenient way of installing a package.

   python -m pip install sameWidther
   

usage

• you can use it as commandline tool

  sameWidther Desktop/sameWidth/font.ufo ENG 4000 10 
  

• or directly in your python script

  from sameWidther import SameWidther, TTFont, Font
  # font = SameWidther(Font('font.ufo'), 'ENG') # for UFOs
  font = SameWidther(TTFont('font.otf'), 'GER') # for OTFs, TTFs
  print(font.getWords(3000, 10, case='upper'))
  

arguments

1. positional
   • font - path to OTF/TTF/UFO file that you want to use
   • language - three letter code of language that you want to have the words in, ENG/GER available locally. Other languages under three letter code 639-2/B are available too. SameWidther's dataset manager will download them on the first request. You can also provide existing path to a database in json format of such structure ["word", "house", "word2", ...]
   • width - width of the words
   • wordCount - number of words that you need
2. optional - keyword arguments
   • threshold - (default: 10) how much in width can the words differ
   • case - (default: lower) do you want to lower, upper or capitalize the case of the words?

word databases

• [ENG] English https://github.com/dwyl/english-words
• [GER] German https://github.com/creativecouple/all-the-german-words
• for other available languages see Lib/resources.json

other resources

• customized OTF/TTF kern dump https://gist.github.com/m4rc1e/59017729923ac4930dcd76823c0acb91

Happy Specimening