Common Value Types

FontParts scripts are built on with objects that represent fonts, glyphs, contours and so on. The objects are obtained through fontparts-world.

FontParts uses some common value types.

String

Unicode (unencoded) or string. Internally everything is a unicode string.

Integer/Float

Integers and floats are interchangeable in FontParts (unless the specification states that only one is allowed).

Coordinate

An immutable iterable containing two Integer/Float representing:

  1. x
  2. y

Angle

XXX define the angle specifications here. Direction, degrees, etc. This will always be a float.

Identifier

A String following the UFO identifier conventions.

Color

An immutable iterable containing four Integer/Float representing:

  1. red
  2. green
  3. blue
  4. alpha

Values are from 0 to 1.0.

Transformation Matrix

An immutable iterable defining a 2x2 transformation plus offset (aka Affine transform). The default is (1, 0, 0, 1, 0, 0).

Immutable List

This must be an immutable, ordered iterable like a tuple.