Hi there from @Sahar@typo.social and @jmsole@typo.social. We’re partners at Dogray, a London-based type foundry—thrilled to be launching with four new Arabic & Latin font families.
Check out our website, https://www.dogray.xyz/
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mastodon 4.6.9type foundry based in south london, designer owned (hi! It’s @Sahar@typo.social and @jmsole@typo.social). we’re all about community, quality, & conscious design 💜
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We did use a good amount of additional Javascript to add some of the features we wanted. Most of them are in support of a better user experience, like filtering the list of families in the Fontdue testers.
But some of them were more about having fun, like the little outline editor in the about page. It’s meant to be a bit of a joke, like “Here, try editing this outline, see how easy or difficult you find it to draw a letter”.
We’ve been wanting to talk about our website for a while, in case our experience might help others in the type community who are considering having their own website and store.
We are quite proud of it because we did it all ourselves using Webflow for the design and managing the database, and Fontdue for the shop experience, type testers and character grid.
All in all, it was relatively easy despite the fact that neither of us had experience building a website of this scope.
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@djrrb@mastodon.social @Sahar@typo.social Thanks David, for all of it. This has truly been a dream project for us!
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Now, I mentioned LLMs at the beginning. I won't justify my use of them. But this tool would not exist without them. I do have a full-on impostor syndrome about it, because yeah, I didn't write all the code that's in there. So many of the great ideas are taken from other's work too. So I don't feel like I own this. It exists because I wanted it to exist, and it's informed by the things I wanted it to do, that's kind of it.
We started with a template to get a good set of bones for the structure of the pages, not from a design perspective but from an HTML and CSS perspective. That helped a lot.
The thing is, if you choose relatively well constructed template, you can do almost any design you can think of on top of it.
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I would like to acknowledge that this would not exist without the work of @simoncozens@typo.social , @harbortype@typo.social , @ryan@typo.social and @letterror@typo.social. For Glyphs, there's one other tool that does something similar, Variable Font Preview 3 by @mark2mark@typo.social, which is certainly more professionally made and will likely be much better supported in the long run. I did consciously and actively avoided replicating things that are unique to that tool.
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@annie Thanks Annie! We had a lot of fun making the fonts and website. We hope everyone who uses them also has at least a bit of fun :D
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@pixelambacht Thanks Roel! We ended up doing it all in-house, there's probably a few rough edges here and there. But we managed to add a few fun bits here and there. There's an editable outline of a letter in the about page, with some of the functionality you'd expect from a font editor (truly basic). There's some stickers you play around with elsewhere as well. Just trying to keep it fun ;)