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16 <h1>december adventure 2025</h1>
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18 <p><a href="https://eli.li/december-adventure">december adventure</a>
19 is a <b>low key</b> thingy by eli oat. the goal is to choose a project
20 and work on it in a relaxed pace.</p>
21 <p>in this year's decadv i want to work on a project that
22 i've been postponing for too long now. i'm fascinated
23 by scripts and writing aystems, both natural and
24 constructed. over the years i've accumulated a few
25 writing systems of my own. sadly, i haven't found the
26 time to document them, but this year i want to try to
27 change this.</p>
28 <p>in particular, i want not only to document each writing
29 system, but to make a computer font for each one.</p>
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33 <p>here will be some log entries, in reverse chronological order.</p>
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42 <h3 id="2025-12-02">2025-12-02</h3>
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44 <p>today i mostly tweaked the website. decided to make it look
45 like <a href="https://acme.cat-v.org">acme</a> window in which i'm currently writing this sentence :D</p>
46 <p>css is a bit questionable, but i'll tweak it more as i go.</p>
47 <p>as a sidenote, it's a bit challenging to work on something while also having
48 to go to a $dayjob...</p>
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50 <h3 id="2025-12-01">2025-12-01</h3>
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52 <p>started working on <a href="ukarpanghooth.html">ukarpanghooth</a> description. couldn't do images today, sorry...</p>
53 <p>also came up with a rough scheme on how to make each font:</p>
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55 <li>draw each glyph and glyph variant (inkscape)</li>
56 <li>save glyphs as individual svg files</li>
57 <li>load glyphs (fontforge)</li>
58 <li>tweak position and size (fontforge)</li>
59 <li>export as ufo (fontforge)</li>
60 <li>add opentype fea</li>
61 <li>compile (fontmake/fontc)</li>
62 <li>test (browser, libreoffice, harfbuzz, pango), looping back to 1-7 as needed</li>
63 <li>verify metadata and upload</li>
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