Quantum

This is a font family for the Quikscript and Shaw (Shavian) alphabets, in the style of 9-pin dot-matrix printers and similar bitmapped displays. They contain the complete ASCII (Basic Latin) character set, the complete Quikscript alphabet in its community-standard Private Use Area encoding, the Shaw alphabet in the Supplementary Multilingual Plane, plus a few other punctuation marks and symbols necessary for typesetting simple documents in English.

Software requirements

• Ensure Python and FontForge are installed, and both are in your PATH environment variable (so they can be invoked from the command line).
• From the root of the repo, run the command pip install -r requirements.txt to install the necessary Python packages.

Building

To build the fonts from scratch, using the provided Windows batch files:

1. Run generate.bat; this produces the intermediate sources in UFO format
2. Run build.bat; this builds the final OpenType (TTF and WOFF2) fonts
   • If you wish, run test.bat to see Font Bakery's test results for the fonts

To easily add or modify glyphs:

1. Edit the image glyphs.pbm and set the corresponding glyph names in glyphs.csv
2. Run step1.bat; this produces SFD files in the sources\temp folder containing the designed glyphs
3. With the master source file Quantum-MASTER-***.sfd open in the same instance of FontForge as the temporary file, manually copy and paste the required glyphs and make any adjustments as required
   • Note that any glyphs in the *aux.sfd masters will automatically replace the corresponding glyphs in the main master, when the Bold and Video styles are generated