december adventure 2025

in this year's decadv i want to work on a project that i've been postponing for too long now. i'm fascinated by scripts and writing aystems, both natural and constructed. over the years i've accumulated a few writing systems of my own. sadly, i haven't found the time to document them, but this year i want to try to change this.

in particular, i want not only to document each writing system, but to make a computer font for each one.

the log

2025-12-01

started working on ukarpanghooth description. couldn't do images today, sorry...

also came up with a rough scheme on how to make each font:

  1. draw each glyph and glyph variant (inkscape)
  2. save glyphs as individual svg files
  3. load glyphs (fontforge)
  4. tweak position and size (fontforge)
  5. export as ufo (fontforge)
  6. add opentype fea
  7. compile (fontmake/fontc)
  8. test (browser, libreoffice, harfbuzz, pango), looping back to 1-7 as needed
  9. verify metadata and upload