BezierInfo-2 VS fontmake

For the bezier you need 4 control points via a click, then evaluate using lerps (or basis functions). Start here https://pomax.github.io/bezierinfo/

> How to pack geometric shapes inside other shapes https://erich-friedman.github.io/packing/

Packing / bin-packing is very serious stuff: savings made there directly translate to less waste / reduced costs (for example when cutting shapes into sheets of metal in big factories).

> * Amazing reference on bezier curves https://pomax.github.io/bezierinfo/

And some beautiful graphs in there, notably those under section 26 "Curvature of a curve". Screenshot'ed for my own collection of good looking stuff!

https://pomax.github.io/bezierinfo/#explanation

A visual overview of commonly used creative coding related techniques and algorithms.

I wrote an openGL font renderer once, it was a lot of fun. Bezier curves are such an elegant technique. The difference between what I wrote and what you'd use in a proper environment is pretty big, but I recommend it sometime.

Fonts are pretty much just third or fourth degree beziers, iirc (i may have my terminology wrong). Try it out sometime, I did mine using tessellation shaders.

Btw, you'll never find a better guide on beziers than here:

https://pomax.github.io/bezierinfo/

Alternatively you can use the equation of a cubic Bézier curve to do the computations yourself. This website offers great explanations and examples of the math behind Bézier curves: https://pomax.github.io/bezierinfo/

Btw, for Bezier math this is a great resource: https://pomax.github.io/bezierinfo/

this is a production quality compiler from ufo to otf/ttf: https://github.com/googlefonts/fontmake

If you have your masters ready you can just use fontmake. I think you can generate .ufos with Font Forge right?

However I also just did a quick test to confirm that Glyphs Mini uses the same native .glyphs file format and you can use fontmake on a Glyphs Mini file to quickly build an OTF, TTF and UFO file via fontmake -g NewFont.glyphs. The only issue you might run into with this is if you're using proprietary Glyphs features like smart components in your design, because fontmake does not support them. If you're that advanced, you would probably benefit from upgrading to the full Glyphs app anyway.

fontmake is a free command-line tool that can generate .ttf/.otf font files from a .glyphs source file.

Here’s GitHub for FontMake