sameWidther

script that accepts OTF/TTF/UFO files and gets you random words of the same width, nice for specimens.

installing

• install this package via pip

python -m pip install sameWidther

• install directly from cloned repo, navigate to the repo in your terminal

python setup.py install

usage

• you can use it as commandline tool

sameWidther Desktop/sameWidth/font.ufo ENG 4000 10 

• or directly in your python script

from sameWidther import SameWidther, TTFont, Font
# font = SameWidther(Font('font.ufo'), 'ENG')
font = SameWidther(TTFont('font.otf'), 'GER')
print(font.getWords(3000, 10, case='upper'))

arguments

positional

• font - path to OTF/TTF/UFO file that you want to use
• language - three letter code of language that you want to have the words in, ENG/GER available. Or provide existing path to a database in json format of such structure ["word", "house", "word2", ...]
• width - width of the words
• wordCount - number of words that you need

optional - keyword arguments

• threshold - (default: 10) how much in width can the words differ
• case - (default: lower) do you want to lower, upper or capitalize the case of the words?

word databases

• [ENG] English https://github.com/dwyl/english-words
• [GER] German https://github.com/creativecouple/all-the-german-words

other resources

• customized OTF/TTF kern dump https://gist.github.com/m4rc1e/59017729923ac4930dcd76823c0acb91

Happy Specimening