Traverse through font design timeline

KalaGola is a cross platform Pythonic tool to traverse through the timeline of your GitHub hosted font repository, and generate a video file to show how your font evolved through time. Just provide your custom web template and repository information as a YAML file or as command line arguments, KalaGola will serve you your video.

How does it work?

KalaGola uses weasyprint to capture html snapshots after checking out each and every commit made on a specific font file and copying the font file on that state to the assets directory which html template uses. As soon as possible KalaGola finished capturing images, using OpenCV bindings for Python, KalaGola converts captured images to frames and then frames to a video file.

How can I use it?

Like mentioned above, KalaGola configurations can be given as a YAML file or as command line arguments. If no argument has been provided KalaGola uses config.yml file by default.

Contents of config.yml file

name: myfont
assets_dir: template/assets
branch: gh-pages
font_file: fonts/AbhayaLibre-Regular.otf
index_file: template/index.html
interval: 100
repository: abhaya-libre-font
stylesheet: template/assets/stylesheet.css
user: mooniak

• name - For name, provide any name you like(do not use spaces), once KalaGola has finished, you will find name.avi video file in the videos directory from KalaGola home.

• assets_dir - This is where you are going put your font while traversing commits. The font file copied to assets directory will be named as myFont and you should use it in your stylesheet like this or in a better way,

@font-face {
    font-family: "My Font";
    src: url('assets/myfont') format("woff");
}

• index_file - This is the template html file which contains the layout designs, designed using your font file, which is to be captured while changing the state of font file.

• stylesheet - The stylesheet can be embedded into html file’s header or YAML file’s stylesheet field.

• repository - This one stands for GitHub repository name.

• user - Consider puttting GitHub user name or organization here.

• branch - This is the branch of the repository which contains font files, which is affected by continuous integration process, where font files, ttf or otf files have been automatically built or updated, or simply have been built manually and pushed.

• font_file - This is the path to the font file in the branch, which KalaGola refers to load the templates and capture images.

• interval - This field is used to reduce the CPU utilization while KalaGola capturing snapshot, by default it is 100, which means for every 100 of captures, KalaGola sleeps for a second. For older PCs reduce the interval number so they won’t get heat up.

To get an idea about the project structure, please refer Abhaya Libre Font, which is mentioned in the default config.yml file of KalaGola.

Command line arguments
Simply use command line arguments to override default settings in runtime. They are the same as the YAML config file’s options. Prefer kalagola -h for more information,

usage: kalagola.py [-h] [-a ADIR] [-b BRANCH] [-f FONT] [-i INDEX] [-n NAME]
                   [-r REPO] [-s STYLESHEET] [-t INTERVAL] [-u USER] [-y YAML]

optional arguments:
  -h, --help            show this help message and exit
  -a ADIR, --adir ADIR  Directory to put font file dynamically
  -b BRANCH, --branch BRANCH
                        Branch containing font files
  -f FONT, --font FONT  Font file source
  -i INDEX, --index INDEX
                        Custom index html file
  -n NAME, --name NAME  Output file name
  -r REPO, --repo REPO  GitHub user repository
  -s STYLESHEET, --stylesheet STYLESHEET
                        Custom CSS style sheet
  -t INTERVAL, --interval INTERVAL
                        Refresh intervals to increase CPU usage
  -u USER, --user USER  GitHub username/organization name
  -y YAML, --yaml YAML  Read settings from yaml file

How can I get KalaGola?

Download KalaGola releases from here, https://github.com/lpsandaruwan/kalagola/releases
You also can obtain the source code from here, https://github.com/lpsandaruwan/kalagola

I have an issue. What can I do?

Please feel free to report issues here, https://github.com/pathumego/kalagola/issues

Credits and contributors

• Pathum Egodawatta
• Lahiru Pathirage

License

KalaGola is relased under GPLv3. Anyone is permitted to do copy, edit or redistribute.