googlefonts / fontdiffenator

Font comparison tool
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Compare new glyphs against a fallback font #65

Open m4rc1e opened 4 years ago

m4rc1e commented 4 years ago

We recently pushed a font into production which contained glyphs that were drawn incorrectly.

Atm, Diffenator's new glyph images are not that useful. Users cannot tell if they're drawn incorrectly because the "before" slide either contains notdefs, blank spaces (if there isn't a rectangle in the notdef), or glyphs assembled from a base glyph + mark glyph.

glyphs_new

@rsheeter suggested it may be better to compare new glyphs against a fallback font such as Noto Sans. When I do this, the results are much clearer.

glyphs_new

I'll have the pr finished some time this week.

cc @bghryct @davelab6