https://github.com/arran4/fontlengths

Font lengths tester by generating pngs of each font and sorting by length automatically
https://github.com/arran4/fontlengths

font-length fonts for-fun golang png-generator

Last synced: 5 months ago
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Font lengths tester by generating pngs of each font and sorting by length automatically

• Host: GitHub
• URL: https://github.com/arran4/fontlengths
• Owner: arran4
• Created: 2024-04-05T05:40:06.000Z (about 1 year ago)
• Default Branch: main
• Last Pushed: 2024-06-26T19:39:28.000Z (11 months ago)
• Last Synced: 2024-11-14T03:31:35.260Z (7 months ago)
• Topics: font-length, fonts, for-fun, golang, png-generator
• Language: Go
• Homepage:
• Size: 1.25 MB
• Stars: 4
• Watchers: 1
• Forks: 0
• Open Issues: 1
• Metadata Files:
  • Readme: readme.md

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# Font length generator

Doing important procrastination right now. Idea from: https://twitter.com/FreyaHolmer/status/1776007184117063807

Generates a PNG with 20x of each of A-Z lines, and sorts them by pixel length.... For each font on your system. 

Results:

![Ubuntu Regular.png](Ubuntu%20Regular.png)

`x` many:

![Screenshot_20240405_163807.png](Screenshot_20240405_163807.png)

Download executable:

https://github.com/arran4/golang-wordwrap/releases

Donwload pre-run results: Look for "premade.zip" in:

https://github.com/arran4/golang-wordwrap/releases

Want to increase the fonts in `premade.zip` modify:

[goreleaser.yml](.github/workflows/goreleaser.yml)

Currently adding fonts using:

```

            sudo apt install -y fonts-freefont-ttf fonts-freefont-otf xfonts-100dpi

```