Feature Request: Character / glyph table

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Feature Request: Character / glyph table

behdad opened this issue 2 years ago · comments

Maybe it's already there and I don't find it, but a character and glyph table viewer would be nice. I want to browse a font's coverage and inspect it visually in a glance.

Just van Rossum · Answer 1 · Thu Dec 15 2022 02:28:40 GMT+0800 (China Standard Time)

Duplicate of #56 and #59.

It would be a pretty big new feature, and is currently out of scope, given the funding status of FontGoggles.

This is the sort of thing that https://wakamaifondue.com/ should be good at (at least for binary fonts).

Behdad Esfahbod · Answer 2 · Thu Dec 15 2022 02:32:41 GMT+0800 (China Standard Time)

Thanks. I might take a stab at it at some point.

Behdad Esfahbod · Answer 3 · Thu Dec 15 2022 02:33:33 GMT+0800 (China Standard Time)

https://wakamaifondue.com/

The reason I like to do in FontGoggles is because then I can render with latest (experimental) features in HarfBuzz without building Chrome with those.

Just van Rossum · Answer 4 · Thu Dec 15 2022 02:45:08 GMT+0800 (China Standard Time)

Makes sense. A fonttools + uharfbuzz script that would output an SVG with the full glyph set could perhaps be a short term solution.

cesss · Answer 5 · Sat Mar 25 2023 18:59:32 GMT+0800 (China Standard Time)

Count my vote as well. I was looking for a Mac application which would let me see every glyph that is available in fonts that I'm inspecting, and thought that FontGoggles would do it.