Making a single-line CNC font from Shantell Sans
CNC machines (i.e. computer-controlled routers and laser cutters), can use single-path fonts to “write” words. I’m testing out making such a font based on some of the original drawings of the Shantell Sans project.
Contents:
0:00 What am I working on?
4:50 Drawing drawing drawing!
1:07:52 Exporting all glyphs to SVGs
1:19:30 Making the font build with FontMake
1:20:56 First test: not great!
1:25:39 The importance of --keep-overlaps