[HarfBuzz] Launched: fontdiff

[Ed Trager]

If I may make a suggestion: use yellow and blue as highlighting colors
instead of red and green because about 8% of males ( 0.5% of females) have
some form of red-green color blindness (actually "color perception
deficiency" would be more accurate).  This means that all of us probably
know a few people among our friends and colleagues who are red-green
colorblind. Only about 0.008% have blue-yellow color blindness, so
blue-yellow is a better choice than red-green.

Best Wishes --

--- Ed Trager
     Bioinformatics,
     Kellogg Eye Center
     UMICH


On Wed, May 25, 2016 at 3:07 PM, Sascha Brawer <sascha at google.com> wrote:

> Hi all,
>
> we just released the fontdiff <https://github.com/googlei18n/fontdiff>, a
> small utility for testing fonts. When you modify a TrueType or OpenType
> font, fontdiff generates a PDF showing the typeset text both before and
> after the change. You can use this PDF to easily review the changes and
> spot any errors caused by a font switch. For every line in the text sample,
> the tool renders two raster images in high resolution. One image is typeset
> using the original font, and the second uses the new font. If there is any
> difference between these two high-resolution images (even if it’s just
> whitespace caused by kerning changes), the output PDF highlights the
> difference in color.
>
> [image: Inline image 1]
> *https://github.com/googlei18n/fontdiff
> <https://github.com/googlei18n/fontdiff>*
>
> * <https://github.com/googlei18n/fontdiff>*
> — Sascha
>
>
> Sascha Brawer · sascha at google.com · sascha at brawer.ch
>
>
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