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16 <h1>december adventure 2025</h1>
17 <p>in this year's decadv i want to work on a project that
18 i've been postponing for too long now. i'm fascinated
19 by scripts and writing aystems, both natural and
20 constructed. over the years i've accumulated a few
21 writing systems of my own. sadly, i haven't found the
22 time to document them, but this year i want to try to
23 change this.</p>
24 <p>in particular, i want not only to document each writing
25 system, but to make a computer font for each one.</p>
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27 <h3>2025-12-01</h3>
28 <p>started working on <a href="ukarpanghooth.html">ukarpanghooth</a> description. couldn't do images today, sorry...</p>
29 <p>also came up with a rough scheme on how to make each font:</p>
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31 <li>draw each glyph and glyph variant (inkscape)</li>
32 <li>save glyphs as individual svg files</li>
33 <li>load glyphs (fontforge)</li>
34 <li>tweak position and size (fontforge)</li>
35 <li>export as ufo (fontforge)</li>
36 <li>add opentype fea</li>
37 <li>compile (fontmake/fontc)</li>
38 <li>test (browser, libreoffice, harfbuzz, pango), looping back to 1-7 as needed</li>
39 <li>verify metadata and upload</li>
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