Font creator to help students learn and read foreign languages faster by appending pronunciation or meaning to each glyph.

languages	preview	state	repository	base-font
Chinese		✔️	hanzi-pinyin-font	DroidSansFallbackFull
Tifinagh	-	🏃‍	hanzi-pinyin-font	DroidSansFallbackFull
🗣️ request new one	-	-	-	Please provide an open-source font

Legend:⏸→ 🏃‍→ ✔️

Requirements: nodejs, yarn or npm.

yarn install 

Requirements: a JSON file describing codepoint-glyph-gloss tuple (e.g. src/data.json).

yarn build 

Custom config:

yarn build --config ./src/config/default.js 

Custom data:

yarn build --data ./path-to/data.json 

Custom Font Name:

yarn build --font-name 'custom-font-name' 

ℹ️ maintenance tasks available are in the [makefile][./makefile], run make to see possible actions.

A list of objects, each describing a glyph, with the following 3 elements:

1. a unicode codepoint ;
2. a base glyph ;
3. a ruby text.

Example:

[{"codepoint": "U+03B1", "glyph": "α", "ruby": "alpha" } ] 

This project use fonts under open-source licenses : DejaVuSans, DroidSansFallbackFull, Noto Sans CJK.

Apache License 2.0

• Édouard Lopez ;
• Hugo Lopez