typemytype
Can the fontFilePath() take fontName as a parameter
It would be convenient if one could call the fontFilePath(fontName) similarly to listFontVariations(). There are situations where I would like to know a path to an installed font, but I do not necessarily want to use it for drawing. Totally, low priority, of course. I can do this for now:
font(fontName)
path = fontFilePath()
Somewhat off topic:
I am personally not convinced listFontVariations() should have gotten that argument in the first place, given the symmetry with FormattedString().listFontVariations(): in the latter case the font argument makes no sense. See also https://github.com/justvanrossum/drawbot-skia/issues/10
Or: perhaps FormattedString should not have gotten methods like listFontVariations() and fontFilePath().
Either way, something's not quite satisfying with these functions/methods as they stand.
Retrieving info from the a font important and maybe it should be separated from a FormattedString and even from global callbacks
I still like this proposal to collect all (calculated) info of a font in a font info like object
see https://github.com/typemytype/drawbot/issues/257
maybe the filePath and variations settings could be bundled there as well Im also aware not to reinvent font.info object over again...
Oh yeah, that definitely looks like a more complete solution! Or an independent library, simpler version of fontTools. We have a wrapper like that with a few common queries we tend to have on binary fonts.
What is font.info? Maybe I am missing something basic.
Ah thanks! My understanding is that fontParts is just for UFO (at least atm.) and I am dealing with compiled fonts in this particular case.
On 21 Nov 2020, at 10:25, Gustavo Ferreira [email protected] wrote:
@MrBrezina font.info
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