https://github.com/fontuni/boonjot

BoonJot Font
https://github.com/fontuni/boonjot

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BoonJot Font

• Host: GitHub
• URL: https://github.com/fontuni/boonjot
• Owner: fontuni
• License: ofl-1.1
• Created: 2015-05-10T12:30:18.000Z (over 9 years ago)
• Default Branch: master
• Last Pushed: 2017-02-05T15:41:17.000Z (almost 8 years ago)
• Last Synced: 2024-08-02T15:05:50.955Z (3 months ago)
• Language: CSS
• Homepage: https://fontuni.com/boonjot
• Size: 5.41 MB
• Stars: 17
• Watchers: 7
• Forks: 6
• Open Issues: 4
• Metadata Files:
  • Readme: README.md

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# บุญจด สุดหรรษา (BoonJot)

![BoonJot Screenshoot](images/boonjot-header.png?raw=true)

BoonJot is left-handed comic sans family (I supposed). It’s machine-made family with unique stroke speed, pen shape & drawing direction especially Thai glyphs. I designed & drew each glyph as single stroke before expanded it to get proper weight with [FontForge](http://fontforge.github.io/en-US/) then worked in detail with [Inkscape](https://inkscape.org/en/). Glyph style is up-right italic but unlike many handwriting fonts, BoonJot doesn’t try to connect glyphs together. That maintains its casual look & still somewhat legible on screen at small size.

Specimen and test pages can be found as slideshow here  or in PDF format here .

Many thanks to [f0nt.com community](http://www.f0nt.com/forum/index.php/topic,22790.0.html) for testing & review. 

## Build Fonts

Binary fonts were already built & included in `fonts` dir but you can do it yourself anyway.

- Install FontForge (+Python extention)

- Compile ttfautohint from dev repo  or `brew install ttfautohint --HEAD` for better Thai hinting.

- Compile Google's woff2 compressor .

- Clone this repos & get inside it.

- Fontuni library for building OT features & RevealJS for HTML pages are required. Run `git submodule init && git submodule update`

- Then run `fontforge -script scripts/build.py` to build TTF, WOFF & WOFF2 fonts

## Build Pages (locally)

- I use [Pandoc (v1.15+)](http://pandoc.org/installing.html#installing-from-source), [RevealJS](https://github.com/hakimel/reveal.js/) & [Sass](http://sass-lang.com/install) to convert markdown to html. If you edit the file `sources/index.md`, just run `sh scripts/build-pages.sh` to rebuild it.

- The slides won't work properly with file uri scheme (for example `file:///fontuni/boonjot/index.html`) so you need whatever webserver which can serve static html. Many built-in webservers will work just fine, for example `python2 -m SimpleHTTPServer 4000` or `python3 -m http.server 4000` or `ruby -run -e httpd -- -p 4000 .` or `php -S localhost:4000`.

- Then open your browser & go to 

## CSS workarounds

- The `locl` feature only works for installed fonts (on your machine). For web fonts (`@font-face`), we need to precisely enable this feature like this one:

  ```

  body {

    -webkit-font-feature-settings:"locl"; 

    -moz-font-feature-settings:"locl"; 

    -ms-font-feature-settings:"locl"; 

    font-feature-settings:"locl";

  }

  ```

## Known issues & Wontfix

See [#12](https://github.com/fontuni/boonjot/issues/12)