GGlyphNode

Services

Scoped engineering, from one failing pair to a full family.

Every engagement starts with measurement and ends with source files you can rebuild. Fixed scope, fixed milestones, no retainer required.

6–18 months

Chinese typeface construction

Stroke system design, component libraries, and glyph production from 3,500 common Hanzi through GB 18030 coverage. Includes Latin and numerals matched to the Hanzi weight.

  • Stroke skeleton specification
  • Component reuse budget
  • Staged coverage milestones
2–8 weeks

Western kerning and spacing

Sidebearing systems rebuilt from optical groups, then pair-by-pair kerning verified at text and display sizes across rasterizers.

  • Optical group spacing
  • Class-based kern tables
  • Cross-platform proof sheets
3–10 weeks

Variable font engineering

Designspace authoring, master compatibility repair, axis mapping with avar2, and named-instance QA so every point on the axis is shippable.

  • Master compatibility repair
  • Axis mapping and avar2
  • Per-instance regression tests
2 weeks

Typeface audit

A written defect report on an existing family: metrics, coverage, kerning failures, hinting behaviour, and axis integrity, with a prioritised fix list and effort estimate.

  • Measured defect list
  • Prioritised remediation plan
  • Effort and cost estimate
1–4 weeks

Hinting and rasterization

TrueType and PostScript hinting, gasp configuration, and screenshot regression at 11px–24px on Windows, macOS, Android, and embedded targets.

  • Per-platform screenshots
  • Stem and alignment zones
  • Embedded target tuning
2–6 weeks

Toolchain and pipeline

fontmake and fontTools build pipelines in CI, automated QA gates, and documentation so your team can ship a corrected binary without us.

  • CI build pipeline
  • Automated QA gates
  • Written handover docs
Annotated stroke construction drawing for a Chinese character

What a milestone contains

A milestone is never a mood board. It is a build: a compiled font, the proof sheets it was reviewed against, the list of glyphs completed, and the open defects carried to the next stage.

Compiled binary
OTF, TTF, and variable builds from the versioned source.
Proof sheets
Waterfall, pair, and paragraph proofs at real reading sizes.
Defect ledger
Open issues with severity, owner, and target milestone.
Source snapshot
UFO/designspace files tagged to the milestone commit.

Engagement terms

How pricing works

Audits are fixed price. Construction and engineering work are quoted per milestone after the audit, invoiced on milestone acceptance. Licensing is separate from engineering and stated in writing before work begins.

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Weight axis specimen print showing interpolation from thin to black