Prepare for initial release

.gitignore

@@ -1,2 +1,2 @@
 out
-mutated
+src_processed

README.md

@@ -10,21 +10,23 @@ To accomplish this, I wanted to start from the 9pt font, which I exported. Then,
 
 ## Project structure
 
-- `./src`: folder containing all Readerly source files
+- `./src`: source .sfd font files (Newsreader 9pt, renamed to Readerly)
-- `./scripts`: some experimental scripts
+- `./scripts`: FontForge Python scripts applied during the build
+  - `scale.py`: scales lowercase glyphs vertically to increase x-height
+  - `metrics.py`: sets vertical metrics (OS/2 Typo, Win, hhea)
+  - `rename.py`: updates font name metadata from Newsreader to Readerly
+- `./src_processed`: intermediate .sfd files after processing (generated)
+- `./out`: final TTF fonts (generated)
 
-## Goal
+## Building
 
-- Increase the vertical sizing of the font by 5-10% (metrics.py)
+```
-- Update the xheight to be closer to what Bookerly looks like (xheight.py)
+python3 build.py
-- This should apply to all fonts
+```
-- A separate "export" script should be added that generates TTF fonts (with old style kerning)
 
-In the end, I want to be able to run a script, `build.py`, which should:
+This uses the Flatpak version of FontForge to:
 
-- Use the flatpak version of FontForge
+1. Copy `./src` to `./src_processed`
-- Copy the ./src files to ./mutated
+2. Scale lowercase glyphs (configurable in `scripts/scale.py`)
-- Apply the edits mentioned above
+3. Set vertical metrics and update font names
-- Export the fonts to TTF in ./out
+4. Export to TTF with old-style kerning in `./out`
-
-I will then manually review the fonts.

build.py

@@ -4,7 +4,7 @@ Readerly Build Script
 ─────────────────────
 Orchestrates the full font build pipeline:
 
-  1. Copies ./src/*.sfd → ./mutated/
+  1. Copies ./src/*.sfd → ./src_processed/
   2. Applies vertical scale (scale.py)
   3. Applies vertical metrics (metrics.py)
   4. Exports to TTF with old-style kern table → ./out/
@@ -25,7 +25,7 @@ import textwrap
 
 ROOT_DIR    = os.path.dirname(os.path.abspath(__file__))
 SRC_DIR     = os.path.join(ROOT_DIR, "src")
-MUTATED_DIR = os.path.join(ROOT_DIR, "mutated")
+MUTATED_DIR = os.path.join(ROOT_DIR, "src_processed")
 OUT_DIR     = os.path.join(ROOT_DIR, "out")
 SCRIPTS_DIR = os.path.join(ROOT_DIR, "scripts")
 
@@ -123,8 +123,8 @@ def main():
     print("  Readerly Build")
     print("=" * 60)
 
-    # Step 1: Copy src → mutated
+    # Step 1: Copy src → src_processed
-    print("\n── Step 1: Copy sources to ./mutated ──\n")
+    print("\n── Step 1: Copy sources to ./src_processed ──\n")
     if os.path.exists(MUTATED_DIR):
         shutil.rmtree(MUTATED_DIR)
     shutil.copytree(SRC_DIR, MUTATED_DIR)
@@ -147,10 +147,11 @@ def main():
         ])
         run_fontforge_script(script)
 
-    # Step 3: Apply metrics.py to each font
+    # Step 3: Apply metrics and rename
-    print("\n── Step 3: Apply vertical metrics ──\n")
+    print("\n── Step 3: Apply metrics and rename ──\n")
 
     metrics_code = load_script_as_function(os.path.join(SCRIPTS_DIR, "metrics.py"))
+    rename_code  = load_script_as_function(os.path.join(SCRIPTS_DIR, "rename.py"))
 
     for sfd_name in sfd_files:
         sfd_path = os.path.join(MUTATED_DIR, sfd_name)
@@ -159,6 +160,7 @@ def main():
 
         script = build_per_font_script(sfd_path, [
             ("Setting vertical metrics", metrics_code),
+            ("Updating font names", rename_code),
         ])
         run_fontforge_script(script)
 

scripts/metrics.py

@@ -155,18 +155,19 @@ else:
 typo_extent    = typo_ascender - typo_descender
 
 # ── OS/2 Win metrics ─────────────────────────────────────────────────────────
-# Clipping boundaries on Windows.  Must cover every glyph or Windows clips them.
+# Clipping boundaries on Windows.  Based on the design ascender/descender
-# usWinDescent is a *positive* distance below the baseline (unlike Typo/hhea).
+# (not the full font bbox, which can be inflated by stacked diacritics like
+# Aringacute).  A small margin prevents clipping of hinting artefacts.
 
 margin       = int(math.ceil(upm * CLIP_MARGIN))
-win_ascent   = int(math.ceil(max(font_ymax, design_top)))  + margin
+win_ascent   = int(math.ceil(design_top))  + margin
-win_descent  = int(math.ceil(max(abs(font_ymin), abs(design_bot)))) + margin
+win_descent  = int(math.ceil(abs(design_bot))) + margin
 
 # ── hhea metrics ──────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────
 # macOS/iOS always uses hhea for *both* line spacing and clipping (it ignores
 # USE_TYPO_METRICS).  To keep line height consistent across platforms, we fold
 # the Typo lineGap into hhea ascent/descent so hhea_lineGap can be 0.
-# Then we take the max with the font bbox to also prevent Mac clipping.
+# Based on design ascender/descender, not the full font bbox.
 
 half_gap  = typo_linegap // 2
 extra     = typo_linegap - 2 * half_gap   # +1 rounding remainder → ascent side
@@ -174,8 +175,8 @@ extra     = typo_linegap - 2 * half_gap   # +1 rounding remainder → ascent sid
 spacing_asc = typo_ascender  + half_gap + extra
 spacing_dsc = typo_descender - half_gap          # more negative
 
-hhea_ascent  = max(spacing_asc, int(math.ceil(font_ymax))  + margin)
+hhea_ascent  = max(spacing_asc, int(math.ceil(design_top))  + margin)
-hhea_descent = min(spacing_dsc, int(math.floor(font_ymin)) - margin)  # negative
+hhea_descent = min(spacing_dsc, int(math.floor(design_bot)) - margin)  # negative
 hhea_linegap = 0
 
 # ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━

scripts/rename.py

@@ -0,0 +1,70 @@
+"""
+FontForge: Update font name metadata
+─────────────────────────────────────
+Replaces Newsreader references with Readerly in all name table entries
+and font-level properties.
+
+Run inside FontForge (or via build.py which sets `f` before running this).
+"""
+
+import fontforge
+
+f = fontforge.activeFont()
+
+# ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━
+# CONFIGURATION
+# ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━
+
+FAMILY = "Readerly"
+
+# Map style suffixes to weight strings
+STYLE_MAP = {
+    "Regular": "Regular",
+    "Bold": "Bold",
+    "Italic": "Italic",
+    "BoldItalic": "Bold Italic",
+}
+
+# ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━
+# DETECT STYLE
+# ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━
+
+# Determine style from the current fontname (e.g. "Readerly-BoldItalic")
+style_suffix = f.fontname.split("-")[-1] if "-" in f.fontname else "Regular"
+style_display = STYLE_MAP.get(style_suffix, style_suffix)
+
+# ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━
+# UPDATE FONT PROPERTIES
+# ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━
+
+f.fontname = f"{FAMILY}-{style_suffix}"
+f.familyname = FAMILY
+f.fullname = f"{FAMILY} {style_display}"
+
+# ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━
+# UPDATE SFNT NAME TABLE
+# ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━
+
+lang = "English (US)"
+
+f.appendSFNTName(lang, "Family", FAMILY)
+f.appendSFNTName(lang, "SubFamily", style_display)
+f.appendSFNTName(lang, "Fullname", f"{FAMILY} {style_display}")
+f.appendSFNTName(lang, "PostScriptName", f"{FAMILY}-{style_suffix}")
+f.appendSFNTName(lang, "Preferred Family", FAMILY)
+f.appendSFNTName(lang, "Preferred Styles", style_display)
+f.appendSFNTName(lang, "Compatible Full", f"{FAMILY} {style_display}")
+f.appendSFNTName(lang, "UniqueID", f"{FAMILY} {style_display}")
+
+# Clear Newsreader-specific entries
+f.appendSFNTName(lang, "Trademark", "")
+f.appendSFNTName(lang, "Manufacturer", "")
+f.appendSFNTName(lang, "Designer", "")
+f.appendSFNTName(lang, "Vendor URL", "")
+f.appendSFNTName(lang, "Designer URL", "")
+
+count = 0
+for name in f.sfnt_names:
+    count += 1
+print(f"  Updated {count} name entries for {FAMILY} {style_display}")
+print("Done.")

scripts/scale.py

@@ -24,7 +24,7 @@ f = fontforge.activeFont()
 # CONFIGURATION
 # ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━
 
-SCALE_X = 1.0
+SCALE_X = 1.03
 SCALE_Y = 1.10
 
 # ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━