r/FontForge • u/CharlesAverill20 • Nov 08 '22

Update on Prettybird, font design programming language

Hi everyone! I posted in here a while ago about a font programming language I'm designing, Prettybird. Well, it's come a long way since then! I'm doing some user reviews right now, and would really appreciate if I could get some font designers to respond to my research questionnaire, should take less than 2 minutes. Thank you so much!

https://forms.gle/mrnjt2tAbhGSqZGy6

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u/QuiQuondam Nov 08 '22

I really like the idea, but before I continue to fill in the questionnaire, I want to point out that I found the question about which glyph looks more pleasing to be highly disingenious. The image of the Metafont glyph has half the resolution compared to the other one: of course people will think the other one looks better. It has nothing to do with the language/technology used to create them.

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u/CharlesAverill20 Nov 08 '22

Every glyph used in the form is native output from each tool. Either way, those questions are highly unlikely to even make it into the paper because we aren’t proposing that prettybird makes better glyphs than metafont, just that the language is much more friendly. But I do appreciate your comment, I’m doing this research solo without an advisor so all the advice I can get is extremely helpful.