ofxFontSampler is a TrueType Font (TTF) glyph path extractor and renderer designed to finely sample glyphes from a font.
It was somewhat inspired by Ken Perlin's blog post "Unfont Design".
The project consist of two parts :
The example consists of two demos you can switch using the mouse left-click. It relies on the ofxTriangleMesh addon to triangulate meshes.
Display iteratively the 26 uppercase letters of the latin charset (A to Z) with different animated contour sampling.
Display a 3d text with dynamic extrusion on the z-axis using the ofxRenderFont utility class.
The example is distributed with a typeface from GNU FreeFont used under the GNU General Public License. You can read more about it and obtain a free copy here.
ofxFontSampler is released under the MIT License.