Calligraphy Machine ✍️

Made for MakeMIT 2019.

Development

1. create virtualenv
2. source virtualenv
3. pip install -r requirements.txt
4. use ttx command to convert any ttf font to ttx format
5. MacOS: fix matplotlib backend bugfix

Usage

• Generate GCode: see python main.py -h for options.
• Plot glyphs for testing: see python plot.py -h for options.

Helpful links

• TrueType font encoding
• fonttools docs (converting to ttx)
• CamBam single-line fonts
• Quadratic bezier
• How OpenType works