Hello everyone, this post concerns especially comic book authors.
I know that the OTF font format allows to include several different versions of each letter. This is suitable (amongst others) for comic book lettering where you try to reproduce the variations of the hand-lettering.
In Gimp, on the text layers, could we easily access these alternative glyphs? And can we imagine a script that automates the succession of glyph variations?
Here is a youtube link that shows the process Lettre et bande dessinée - YouTube but unfortunately it looks like the adobe tools are used there (I don’t know if there is a custom script part in the process)
Could we imagine this in Gimp ?
(or if I could possibly contribute to make it possible, even if I never wrote a script, it would be an opportunity to start)
(In the same vein, an automation of random variations in letter placement in height, could also help make the “fake hand lettering” more lively)
For the second part, my own ofn-text-along-path script allows you to add some random tilt, height, and spacing (in that case you would use it with a straight path). For instance using the XKCD font:
