This repository contains an experiment to create a font generator tool that is based on constraint optimization. The approach is similar to METAFONT.
There is nothing specific that makes this approach specific to fonts. It could be used for arbitrary graphics generation, just like METAPOST. This is not a priority at the moment, but may be implemented in the future.
The simplest way to try the program is to use the Webassembly version which can be run directly in the web browser.
The code can be run natively as well. This results in an executable
called fonttoy that you can run:
./fonttoy path/to/file.fdef
The build depends on liblbfgs and tinyxml2. The code builds with
Meson and will download the dependencies automatically from
WrapDB automatically if they are not
available on the system. On Debian derived distros the dependencies
can be installed with:
sudo apt install liblbfgs-dev libtinyxml2-dev
The implementation is in C++17. Compiling the Webassembly version requires a version of Meson that is not yet in master, but there is an outstanding pull request.