jpt / find-same-length-words

Calculates words with similar or identical advance widths for a given font.

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Find Same Length Words

Calculates words with similar or identical advance widths for a given font.

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Usage

Change the variables at the top of find_same_length_words.py until you feel a sense of joy. FILE_FONT should be an OTF, which might need to be in the same directory as the script. I haven't taken all the naughty words out of the lc58k wordlist, you might want to use your own or edit it.

You can run this as a CLI script, but it's written with DrawBot in mind.

Cache

Calculating the advance widths of 58,000 words is somewhat computationally expensive, so the script makes use of a cache. When you first run the script, cache.json is created to store the pre-computed advance widths of all the words in a random order. This means that while the first run of the script will take some time, subsequent runs should be much faster.

If you change the font or UC/LC/IC value, you'll need to enable the CLEAR_CACHE flag at the top of the main script the first time you run it (or just delete cache.json).

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Calculates words with similar or identical advance widths for a given font.

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