The UI component of the AiteStory project.
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# Canola
## extending a font into a font family
Canola (named Sean during development) is the first typeface family being produced with Metapolator's developer environment *RedPill*. On the following pages some techniques are described to work with *RedPill* and how to generate a font family from one master font. In the case of Canola, the master has been drawn as a *Hairline* style thus the shapes are very close to the skeleton. Some of the solutions are tail-ordered for this typeface specifically and some might be more generic.
##### Tool used in the process
- Metapolator- Robofont- Terminal (Command line OSX)- Firefox
I'm evaluating the font from time to time in RedPill's web interface. Though due the long loading times I use Robofont to check Metapolator's output.
Once Metapolator installed we can initialize a new project in our local directory:
metapolator init 'project-name'
from within the new project folder a master can be imported as *base.cps*:
metapolator import ../mymaster.ufo base To verify the font has been imported successfully we can export our base:
metapolator export base myfirstfont.ufo
And we should get a copy of the original.
######[Setting up *Black Wide*](https://github.com/metapolator/canola/blob/master/notes/blackwide.md)
######[Setting up *Thin Wide*](https://github.com/metapolator/canola/blob/master/notes/thinwide.md)
######[Interpolating *Thin Wide* and *Black Wide*](https://github.com/metapolator/canola/blob/master/notes/interpolating.md)
######[Setting up *Thin Compressed* and *Black Compressed*](https://github.com/metapolator/canola/blob/master/notes/thincompressed.md)
######[Joints and Knots](https://github.com/metapolator/canola/blob/master/notes/knots.md)
######[Creating a four-master design space](https://github.com/metapolator/canola/blob/master/notes/stepping.md)
######[Adding contrast](https://github.com/metapolator/canola/blob/master/notes/contrast.md)
######[Rendering all Instances](https://github.com/metapolator/canola/blob/master/notes/super.md)
## License
© 2014 Simon Egli. *Canola* is designed and developed by Simon Egli. *Canola* is licensed under the SIL Open Font License v1.1 (<http://scripts.sil.org/OFL>)
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