Please suggest collections of glyphsets that are useful for type designers

[justvanrossum]

We currently use

• https://github.com/googlefonts/glyphsets

It would be nice to offer more collections, preferably well curated. They have to be freely available on line in a machine readable format.

Our new font overview UI allows users to add glyphsets to the project, or to their personal Fontra settings.

Please use the comments in this discussion to propose suggestions.

[ollimeier]

What about the character sets by @koeberlin:
https://github.com/koeberlin/Latin-Character-Sets

[koeberlin]

Thank you, @ollimeier! Apropos well curated, I’m about to make a new release, with Latin M then supporting DIN-91379.
Would also gladly make them (more) machine readable, just let me know.

[justvanrossum]

My one request would be to have a single file per glyph set containing glyph names using GlyphsApp naming convention. (Optionally the same with RF naming convention as well.) This is currently only available as a single plist file containing the whole collection, which unfortunately does not sit well with how I implemented our glyph sets feature (for better or for worse).

[koeberlin]

Alright, I’ll get back to you when I’m at it!

[justvanrossum]

Don’t worry if it’s too much hassle, I’ll figure something out with your current selection if needed.

[ollimeier]

Adobe link: https://adobe-type-tools.github.io/adobe-latin-charsets/adobe-latin-1.txt

[ollimeier]

https://github.com/adobe-type-tools/adobe-latin-charsets

[justvanrossum]

They have lots of non-latin, too: https://github.com/adobe-type-tools/Adobe-KR/

[justvanrossum]

Black Foundry glyph sets: https://github.com/BlackFoundryCom/BF_font_standard/tree/main

[koeberlin]

Just updated my character sets to version 1.000! Do these txt files suit your needs?
https://github.com/koeberlin/Latin-Character-Sets/tree/main/CharacterSets/Glyphs
https://github.com/koeberlin/Latin-Character-Sets/tree/main/CharacterSets/RoboFont

[ollimeier]

Amazing!
@koeberlin As these are glyph sets from you, would you be interested in making a linkedIn post for that? And if not, would it be ok for you, if I do one and mention you?

[ollimeier]

Is the order intentional L, M S, XL and not S, M, L, XL?

[koeberlin]

Thank you, @ollimeier! I’ll post something, but if you want to focus on the Fontra integration, feel free to post something yourself. And of course you can mention me :)
The order is alphabetical, always a downside of the S–XL scheme …

[ollimeier]

Thanks a lot :)

[ollimeier]

This should fix the sorting: #1993

[davelab6]

https://www.underware.nl/latin_plus/info

[justvanrossum]

Unfortunately not immediately usable: https://www.underware.nl/download/latin_plus/Underware_Latin_Plus_Data_1.txt is not compatible with our current parse options.

[mitradranirban]

I have a created a glyphset csv for Bengali conjucts we prepared for Free Bangla Font Projects flagship font Mukti containtaing a comprehensive set of conjuncts in Bengali . If I want to use it, how can I do that? I an attaching the csv. The base glyphs are already in Fontra. The conjucts are arranged as per GSUB lookup with corrosponding suffix such as .nukt for Nukta forms, .akhn for Akhand forms etc. Thanks
fbf-bn-glyphlist.csv

[justvanrossum]

One way to do it is to import your CVS into a Google Sheet, set the sharing permissings to "allow anyone with the URL", and paste the URL into the "Add custom glyph set" dialog, and fill in the additional info:

In your case, you should check the "Has header" checkbox, and fill in the header names in the fields below.

[mitradranirban]

Thanks! It worked

[mitradranirban]

I have put fbf Bengali√ glyph set in a github repo if anyone needs it

[wickedletters]

Hi, could you also add Georgian character set?
https://github.com/wickedletters/Georgian-Character-set.git

Let me know if there's more info necessary.

Thanks!

[justvanrossum]

Thank you, I will add them!

[justvanrossum]

Done: #2167

[wickedletters]

Wow, that was super quick. Thank you!