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Introducing Toools

Introducing Toools

Nunzio Mazzaferro

As Collletttivo turns eight, we reflect on years of incessant design and research—and look ahead to many more. Our passion remains as strong as ever, and our daily work continues to focus on making typography more inclusive and accessible.

Throughout the years, several members of our team have challenged themselves to design beyond the standard “A to Z”. We encountered numerous challenges in the process, and found a clear need for specialized tools to expand and improve our design workflows.

As a result, we've developed a set of tools designed specifically to ease the process of including, testing, and validating extended character sets in order to support various languages and writing systems. These tools are now openly available and we invite designers and developers to use, modify, adapt and improve them.

  • word-o-mat v4.0 a

Word-o-mat now auto-builds the list available in the drop down from the file system. The plug-in now has two drop-down menus: one to select the writing system (Latin, Arabic, Cyrillic, N’Ko and Tifinagh at the moment) and one to select the language (we added Farsi, Bulgarian, Russian, Bambara, Romanian, Maninka, Tifinagh). We invite fellow designers and developers to help us review and expand the word lists.

  • Wordlist builders

If you want to build a dictionary yourself and have a source PDF file you can use these set of scripts to extract words by Unicode Range, by Specific characters or by font and color.

  • definitive (?) CustomFilter

A one-stop-shop file to compare your font's character set to new and old industry standards, including standards from Apple, Micrisoft, Linotype, Monotype, Adobe, ISO and the more recent Koeberlin and SharpType.

  • mark and mark2mark feature helpers

Not at all a definitive solution but a quick way to write some mark features to test attachments for minority writing systems on the fly.

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“Perhaps the free font movement will continue to grow slowly, along the lines in which it is already taking shape: in the service of creating typefaces that sustain and encourage both the diversity and connectedness of humankind.”

Ellen Lupton, 2006

Donate to support our Open Source font catalogue

Collletttivo is an independent type practice that lives on thanks to the work of its members and the support of the many downloading and using their typefaces. If you like any of our fonts, please consider donating to the collective. Your support helps us keep the website running and offloads some printing, distribution and travel expenses.

As a warm thank you to all our donors, following is a list of our contributors:

  • Companion Studio
  • Daniela Burger
  • MAKEBARDO
  • Swantje Engels
  • Edda Rumpel
  • Sheila Ehm
  • Maximiliane Schmid
  • Het Nieuwe Instituut
  • DR.ME
  • Michèle Fischhaber
  • Toni Tajima
  • Riccardo Perello
  • Blake House Productions Ltd
  • Les formes associées
  • Walaa Al Muhaiteeb
  • Jenny Chan
  • Christopher Smith
  • Matthieu Litt
  • Cesar Avila Morales
  • Gabriele Ghisalberti
  • Floriane Misslin
  • Fernanda Braun Santos
  • Isaline Moulin
  • Daniel Rubio Arauna
  • Randall Stagg
  • Panagiotis Tsironis
  • Paschalis Zervas
  • STB
  • Igor Petrusev
  • Fanny Luor
  • Alison Dyer
  • Raydene Salinas
  • Helena Jaramillo
  • Henrique Folster
  • Alun Carr
  • Marleigh Culver
  • Igor Petrusev
  • Max Beyer
  • Tyler Hathaway
  • Kristian Kutschera
  • George Monje
  • Nancy Ng
  • Primary Foundry
  • Alexander Bruno
  • Martha Hipley
  • Lam Cheuk Wang
  • Haider Ahmad
  • Madeleine Sanchez
  • James Hillier
  • Andreea Lisievici Nevin
  • Tugce Ozmen
  • Treva Winslow
  • Maria Rodriguez
  • Louis Charron
  • Chelsea Fullerton-Jones
  • Cheyenne Oswald
  • Alice Moor
  • Elena Ballan
  • Colin Derrer
  • Cameron Cook
  • Dora Baumann
  • Sina Hassene
  • Christina Vetesnik
  • Melina Paulli
  • Balla Kristóf
  • J R R C Champ
  • Keywon Chung
  • Marc Oxborrow
  • Oliver Lindsay
  • Andres Moreno
  • Caylan Hallows
  • Ambria Daye
  • Fernanda Tapia
  • Seth Moherman
  • Gaetano Giuzio
  • Amanda Croy
  • Samantha Garcia
  • Gabriel Vigorito
  • Whitney Smith
  • Massimo Bertoldo
  • Avalon Preisendorfer
  • Nick Maggi / VHSverified
  • Lisa Cecchi
  • Ray Oranges
  • Anastasia Melandinou
  • Mathias Reisigl
  • Mario Šimić
  • Francesca Perra
  • John Fresco
  • Marc Oxborrow
  • Valentina Bigaran
  • Wong Hao Jie
  • Ashley Peters
  • Antonio Maria Caporale
  • Angelina Liu
  • Irina Kulkova
  • Bianca Ponciano
  • Knoto
  • Zeina Muhtadi
  • Rasmus Giesel
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