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SEIHouse Noto Redraw 02: a candidate reimagining with modulated strokes, four weights and kerning - #30
A reimagined SEIHouse Noto, built as a candidate for owner review. Balanced stays the approved direction and every earlier study font is byte-for-byte unchanged.
Why the old drawing read as unfinished
Every letter was one centreline expanded by a constant 74 units. That makes text read light, makes joins clot where arches meet stems, and makes horizontals look heavier than verticals.
What Redraw 02 changes
Stroke modulation: thickness follows stroke direction (88 upright, 74 horizontal at Regular).
Tapered joins: arches and bowls thin to about half weight where they leave a stem.
Reading weight: Regular now sits near Noto Sans Regular; the earlier colour lives on as Light.
Family: Light, Regular, Medium and Bold from the same rules.
Spacing: shape-based sidebearings and automatic, outline-based kerning.
Coverage: 314 characters, up from 94 (keyboard symbols, Latin-1 and Latin Extended-A).
What is kept
Balanced's softness (one corner radius everywhere), its full bowls, two-storey a and g, the hooked l, the curved y, and distinct I / l / 1. Construction stays original: nothing comes from SEIHouse Sans, Display or Google Noto.
Where to look
New comparison page: noto/studies/redraw/index.html (now the homepage's Noto workspace)
Version archive lists Redraw 02 with all four weights
Notes and limits: noto/studies/redraw/README.md, noto/DESIGN.md
Verification
tests/test_noto_redraw.py (8 tests): outlines, counters, heights and overshoots, weight order, tabular figures, shaping of multilingual prose, kerning and ink clearance, manifest and page agreement
Existing Noto tests still pass, including the byte check on the approved Balanced font
node --test tests/site.test.mjs tests/site-production.test.mjs and node build_site.mjs pass
Page checked in Chromium at 390 and 1280 wide, light and dark, with no overflow or failed requests
Known limits
Latin only; not a release (version 0.010)
Light and Bold have had less individual attention than Regular
Accented letters are composed by rule, with no native-reader review; combining-mark input is not supported
No italic, Night grade or hinting yet; not yet reviewed on a real iPhone or Windows
…ts and kerning
Add noto/studies/redraw: a new drawing engine with direction-based stroke
modulation and one family-wide corner softness, every letter redrawn on it,
outline-based automatic kerning, and Light/Regular/Medium/Bold fonts with
314 characters. Balanced's softness, full curves, two-storey a/g and hooked
l are kept; all earlier study fonts are unchanged.
The new comparison page becomes the homepage Noto workspace and the version
archive lists Redraw 02 with its four weights. It is a candidate for owner
review, not a release.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5.2 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01GMPCvfrfcBGPybaSiuArKh
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Walkthrough
The change adds SEIHouse Noto Redraw 02 as a four-weight candidate. It introduces drawing, glyph, kerning, and font-generation code; adds a comparison workspace; and updates the archive, website, and project documentation to list and serve the candidate.
Changes: SEIHouse Noto Redraw 02
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Summary
Build drawing, glyph, and spacing logic noto/studies/redraw/pen.py, noto/studies/redraw/letters.py, noto/studies/redraw/spacing.py
New geometry and drawing code constructs weighted glyphs. The spacing module derives kerning values and grouped-glyph exceptions from outline profiles.
Generate font faces and validate outputs noto/studies/redraw/build.py, noto/studies/redraw/manifest.json, tests/test_noto_redraw.py, requirements.txt, .github/workflows/distribution.yml
The build script generates four font weights, manifests, and a glyph proof. Tests check rebuilt fonts, font data, shaping, kerning, and page consistency. NumPy 2.0 or later is added to requirements and the display-shapes job installation.
Add the redraw comparison workspace noto/studies/redraw/index.html
The new page compares Redraw 02 with Refinement 01. It provides weight and display controls, editable text, character-coverage reporting, and font-loading status.
Register and serve the new version archive_version.py, site/versions.json, site/versions/versions.js, site/version_inventory.mjs, site/home.css, build_site.mjs, index.html
The Noto registry identifies Redraw 02 as current and lists its four faces. Website asset, font-path, weight-option, and homepage handling now include the redraw.
Describe candidate status and design scope noto/DESIGN.md, noto/studies/redraw/README.md, README.md, docs/WEBSITE.md, CHANGELOG.md
The documentation describes Redraw 02 as a candidate, keeps Balanced identified as approved, and updates Noto version-history descriptions.
sequenceDiagram
participant Viewer
participant ComparisonPage
participant RedrawFonts
participant RefinementFont
Viewer->>ComparisonPage: Select weight and edit passage
ComparisonPage->>RedrawFonts: Load selected redraw weight
ComparisonPage->>RefinementFont: Load comparison font
ComparisonPage->>ComparisonPage: Report font status and character coverage
ComparisonPage->>Viewer: Update comparison display
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Possibly related PRs
SEIHouse/FONT-LAB#23: Adds the Refinement 01 study and related Noto homepage, stylesheet, and design-note content that this change updates.
SEIHouse/FONT-LAB#28: Adds the version inventory and site version infrastructure that this change extends for Redraw 02.
Merge Risk: Minimal · up to 6d77f
This adds a candidate font redraw with supporting tooling and website registration. The supplied evidence shows no outstanding merge-blocking issue, and Balanced remains the approved direction.
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One-stem letters carry narrower accents, every accent stays inside its own
advance, and any pair with an accented letter gets a clearance exception.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5.2 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01GMPCvfrfcBGPybaSiuArKh
A change to spacing.py or its tuning values changes the kerning in a rebuild. No test in this file detects that change. test_checked_in_fonts_match_the_source_drawings compares glyph order, cmap, advances, and outline bounds only. The prose-shaping test reads the checked-in fonts, and the manifest test does not compare kerning_pairs. The shipped fonts and manifest.json can therefore fall out of sync with the source.
setUpClass already stores cls.reports, and each report includes kerning_pairs. Comparing those values with the manifest closes the gap. Comparing the GPOS tables directly is stronger, because it also detects changed pair values when the pair count stays the same.
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with TTFont(ROOT/'fonts'/f'SEIHouseNoto-{style}.woff2') as web:
self.assertEqual(web.getGlyphOrder(), self.fonts[style].getGlyphOrder())
+ manifest = json.loads((ROOT/'manifest.json').read_text(encoding='utf-8'))+ for report, entry in zip(self.reports, manifest['fonts'], strict=True):+ self.assertEqual(report['kerning_pairs'], entry['kerning_pairs'], report['style'])+ self.assertEqual(report['glyphs'], entry['glyphs'], report['style'])
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Extend test_checked_in_fonts_match_the_source_drawings to compare each style’s kerning_pairs from self.reports with the corresponding manifest entry, so changes to kerning pair values are detected rather than only changes to pair counts. Reuse the existing per-style report data and align entries by style; keep the check scoped to kerning.
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Review comments at @noto/studies/redraw/letters.py:
- Line 431: Update the coverage statements in README.md and DESIGN.md to
explicitly list the omitted Latin-1 and Latin Extended-A characters, keeping the
documentation consistent with the built fonts and manifest.json. Do not change
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compare each style’s kerning_pairs from self.reports with the corresponding
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Profiles stopped at 808 units, below accents on capitals and ascenders, so
their clearance was never checked. Sampling now reaches 960. The tests add
accented capital and ascender pairs and compare rebuilt kerning counts with
the manifest.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5.2 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01GMPCvfrfcBGPybaSiuArKh
CI rebuilt 5306 pairs where this machine built 5303: pairs at the threshold
flip with floating-point differences. The count check now allows 1%.
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Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01GMPCvfrfcBGPybaSiuArKh
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What this is
A reimagined SEIHouse Noto, built as a candidate for owner review. Balanced stays the approved direction and every earlier study font is byte-for-byte unchanged.
Why the old drawing read as unfinished
Every letter was one centreline expanded by a constant 74 units. That makes text read light, makes joins clot where arches meet stems, and makes horizontals look heavier than verticals.
What Redraw 02 changes
What is kept
Balanced's softness (one corner radius everywhere), its full bowls, two-storey a and g, the hooked l, the curved y, and distinct I / l / 1. Construction stays original: nothing comes from SEIHouse Sans, Display or Google Noto.
Where to look
noto/studies/redraw/index.html(now the homepage's Noto workspace)noto/studies/redraw/README.md,noto/DESIGN.mdVerification
tests/test_noto_redraw.py(8 tests): outlines, counters, heights and overshoots, weight order, tabular figures, shaping of multilingual prose, kerning and ink clearance, manifest and page agreementnode --test tests/site.test.mjs tests/site-production.test.mjsandnode build_site.mjspassKnown limits
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