GlyphWizard — a homegrown macOS type-authoring wizard for Aesthetic Inc. From-scratch parametric glyph generation: you author glyph skeletons (centerlines); the TypeWizard axes expand them into filled outlines, live. Then export a UFO and compile a real font.

Sibling to date-wizard/, wave-wizard/, clip-wizard/, juke-wizard/, shot-wizard/ — same conventions: a Swift Package executableTarget, AppKit (NSApplication + AppDelegate + custom-drawn NSView). Not SwiftUI.

Build & run #

swift build
swift run GlyphWizard

Requires macOS 12+ and a Swift 5.9 toolchain.

The pipeline #

SKELETON ──▶ EXPANDER ──▶ TypeWizard axes ──▶ UFO export ──▶ fontTools ──▶ OTF/TTF
(centerlines) (offset by    (weight·contrast·   (.ufo)        (bin/        (real font)
              a pen)         width·slant·x-ht)                 compile.sh)

GlyphEngine.swift — the model (Glyph = Stroke skeletons), the stroke Expander (offsets each centerline by a pen whose width tracks the local tangent → contrast; closed skeletons become annuli so counters stay open), and the v0.1 starting skeletons for r e g a d.
CanvasView.swift — draws the word from skeletons + axes; the skeleton overlay is draggable — move points to author letterforms live.
AppDelegate.swift — the TypeWizard panel (weight, contrast, width, slant, x-height, tracking, round terminals) + wordmark field + UFO export.
UFOExport.swift — writes a UFO3 package with the axes baked in.

Compile a font #

bin/compile.sh Regarde.ufo      # → Regarde.otf / Regarde.ttf

Needs fontmake: pipx install fontmake (pulls fontTools + ufo2ft).

Status — v0.1 #

Engine + live editable canvas + axes + UFO export are in. The r e g a d skeletons are rough placeholders — refine them in-app (drag the points). Next: proper apertures (e/a/g), per-glyph contrast modeling, the platter of reference specimens carried over from the regarde prototype, and a GlyphWizard (per-glyph editor) / TypeWizard (global) split mirroring the /pop wizards.