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Fudge — Making Fonts with Code

Nic Mulvaney on July 12, 2004

“Fudge is a software engine for manipulating TrueType and OpenType fonts in a Flash Actionscript environment.”

This is a personal project I have been working on for the past few months. It allows me to write effects in actionscript to manipulate outlines, producing working fonts. I can also write scripts for specific inputs, allowing me to invent physical input devices for making new type designs.

6 Responses to “Fudge — Making Fonts with Code”

Josh Scruggs says:

07.12.04 at 9:41 am

Looks cool. Any plans for a Mac version?
Nic Mulvaney says:

07.12.04 at 10:54 am

Possibly Josh, but it depends on the development of a mac plugin for Flash Studio Pro. If it means rewriting a lot of fudge, then I may not bother.
Stephen Coles says:

07.12.04 at 2:17 pm

Sweet on, Nic. This reminds me of the old ParaType app ParaNoise.
Rolf says:

07.13.04 at 3:40 am

I’m impressed, funky stuff.
Wonder how and if it’s possible to incorporate this kind of stuff in (other) flash enviroments (e.g. sites)..
keep up the good work!
mGee says:

07.15.04 at 5:45 am

“If it means rewriting a lot of fudge, then I may not bother.”

Why not make it open source? I’m quite sure someone would eventually port it to Mac.
Nic Mulvaney says:

07.19.04 at 11:34 am

“Sweet on, Nic. This reminds me of the old ParaType app ParaNoise.”

Yes, I took a bit of inspiration from the effects ParaNoise creates.

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“Why not make it open source?”

Yes, this was my original thought, but at the moment I still want to explore it myself. Afterall I put a lot of work into it. I may release the open/plot/save functions for TTX files.

Thanks for your interest in this project :)