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fdb
Plumin is a light wrapper around paper.js [1] and my opentype.js library[2], which can parse and write OpenType fonts in pure JavaScript.

Plumin is nice to build fonts from scratch. If you're interested in taking an existing font and manipulating its shape or metrics, consider using opentype.js directly.

[1] http://paperjs.org/

[2] https://github.com/nodebox/opentype.js

RussianCow
What is the use case for something like this? I think it's really, really cool that this is possible, but I'm having trouble coming up with a scenario in which I'd actually want to do this.
jarcane
I know of at least one site (FilmOn) that uses this kind of font substitution for rendering UI elements.
RussianCow
Is that done on the client-side or on the server? It makes sense to me if you want to programmatically generate icon fonts, but I just don't see the use case for doing this in the browser. Unless of course you were building an in-browser font creator tool. :)

Regardless, this is a really cool idea!

systemtrigger
A SaaS could use it to distort content, and remove the distortion for paid accounts.
m_mueller
by distorting on client side? well..
joshontheweb
Just being able to adjust the font-weight of a font that doesn't have multiple font-weights is something I've wanted to do many times before.
EdSharkey
Blob url's set for @font-face src! What a neat hack.
sparaker
Looks pretty awesome. Do you have any benchmarks on how fast this is on a mobile?
politician
Web Font licensing is such a completely painful mess that I would wish/hope/love if this software came with a license that constrains the terms of use on any fonts produced with it to Creative Commons, or (what the hell) GPL.