This is a tool to produce the fonts from GlyphWiki, the wiki site that anyone can post any glyph.
The product font of this toolthat covers all Unicode Ideographs are prepared in the separated github repository.
This tool creates OpenType GSUB/GPOS featured font from Kage data of GlyphWiki.
Following procedures are taken to create fonts from GlyphWiki.
- Download newest dump data from GlyphWiki web site.
- Extract and expand Kage Data of needed glyphs.
- Convert Kage data to SVG image files by Kage Engine.
- Clip the outlines of SVG images by using Clipper, then convert it to SVG Font.
- Convert SVG Font to PostScript Type1 name-keyed font by AFDKO tx.
- Dump name-keys of created font and create CID index.
- Create CMAP (including IVS) and GSUB/GPOS features based on dump data.
- Create CID-keyed font by using AFDKO mergeFonts.
- Create OpenType font from CID-Keyed font by using AFDKO mkotf.
You need AFDKO Github Version, Adobe Perl Scripts, Emacs (25.2 or later), Rhino, perl, wget, Math::Clipper, basic Unix tools, 10Gbyte of disk space and the Internet connection.
By default, eight fonts will be generated.
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HanaMinA.otf (Font Family Name: Hanazono Mincho A) This font mainly covers CJKV Ideographs of BMP (Basic Mulitilingual Plane).
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HanaMinB.otf (Font Family Name: Hanazono Mincho B) This font mainly covers CJK Unified Ideographs Extension B.
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HanaMinC.otf (Font Family Name: Hanazono Mincho C) This font mainly covers CJK Unified Ideographs Extension C to F.
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HanaMinAX.otf (Font Family Name: Hanazono Mincho AX) This font mainly covers CJKV Ideographs of Extension A.
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HanaMinUX.otf (Font Family Name: Hanazono Mincho AX) This font mainly covers CJKV Ideographs URO (Unified Repertoire Ordering).
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HanaMinBX.otf (Font Family Name: Hanazono Mincho BX) This font mainly covers CJK Unified Ideographs Extension B.
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HanaMinCX.otf (Font Family Name: Hanazono Mincho CX) This font mainly covers CJK Unified Ideographs Extension C to F.
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HanaMinI.otf (Font Family Name: Hanazono Mincho I) This font mainly covers IDS (Ideographic Description Sequences).
These fonts also cover all variants of IVD collections.
Run the following command to create the newest font. Please make sure that you install all required software, set up Perl library environment variables, set the $(AFDKO) environment variable to the installation directory of AFDKO perl scripts.
git clone https://github.com/kawabata/glyphwiki-afdko
cd glyphwiki-afdko
git submodule init
git submodule update
«check Makefile/Makefile_HanaMin settings»
make
This will download "dump.tar.gz" from GlyphWiki web site and create the fonts. It may take several hours (depends on your machine power), and then "HanaMinA.otf" and "HanaMinB.otf" will be produced.
You can check the contents of produced fonts by AFDKO spot tools, e.g.
spot -Proof HanaMinA.pdf > HanaMinA.ps
ps2pdf HanaMinA.ps -o HanaMinA.pdf
Note that "spec" is a regular expression to match for GlyphWiki name. Pre-built font can be downloaded from HanaMinAFDKO Releases page.
When make command fails, there may be some empty files, which you should remove to avoid unexpected error.
find . -type f -empty -delete
Be sure that Math::Cliper is properly installed. It is confirmed to work with Macintosh and Linux. However, if you are using MacOS 10.9.1 or later, installation of Math::Clipper via CPAN may fail. In that case, install perl 5.18 (from Homebrew, etc.) and try again.
Kage Engine is distributed under GPLv2.
'cmap-tool.pl' is copyrighted by Adobe, and is distribued under Adobe Opentype Font Developer's Kit ("Fdk") License Agreement.
For the license of the generated fonts, please refer GlyphWiki License.
- KAWABATA TAichi and KAMICHI Koichi, GlyphWiki - a Wiki-based glyph design and font production system. ( link)