Font-Validator
Font Validator is a tool for testing fonts prior to release. This testing ensures that fonts meet Microsoft's high quality standards and perform exceptionally well on Microsoft's platform. (by HinTak)
fontforge
Free (libre) font editor for Windows, Mac OS X and GNU+Linux (by fontforge)
| Font-Validator | fontforge | |
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| 1 | 21 | |
| 142 | 6,087 | |
| - | 2.1% | |
| 0.0 | 7.5 | |
| 11 months ago | 28 days ago | |
| C# | C | |
| GNU General Public License v3.0 or later | GNU General Public License v3.0 or later |
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Stars - the number of stars that a project has on GitHub. Growth - month over month growth in stars.
Activity is a relative number indicating how actively a project is being developed. Recent commits have higher weight than older ones.
For example, an activity of 9.0 indicates that a project is amongst the top 10% of the most actively developed projects that we are tracking.
Font-Validator
Posts with mentions or reviews of Font-Validator.
We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives
and similar projects. The last one was on 2021-01-03.
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How do I fix glitchy and partially invalid fonts?
Did you try Font-Validator to find the issue?
fontforge
Posts with mentions or reviews of fontforge.
We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives
and similar projects. The last one was on 2023-01-27.
- Fontforge: Free (libre) font editor for Windows, Mac OS X and GNU+Linux
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Broken bitmap fonts on Linux with FF112?
You should be able to convert .fon files using https://github.com/fontforge/fontforge .
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Vertically centering glyphs
Fontforge doesn't currently have a way to vertically center glyphs - in the script I'm currently working with, all glyphs should be vertically centered, so this is very inconvenient. I saw that there was one open issue on this very topic - but the last activity was in 2016, so I don't think it'll get added anytime soon. Instead, I decided to spend some hours on tripping over my skills to read the documentation.
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The End of Type 1
You are but, as of today, reliably, only via the GUI, and therefore, one by one, not in batches via scripting due to a bug[1]. That is the case at least for Type 1 Mac fonts.
[1]: https://github.com/fontforge/fontforge/issues/4668
- Font Creation Tools?
- 【のーもらふぉんと部】『FontForge』January 2023 出てました
- FontForge January 2023 Release
- Release FontForge January 2023 Release · fontforge/fontforge
- How TT Hinting Works · fontforge/fontforge Wiki
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Can Linux read *.fon files?
FON files are Windows bitmap fonts, aren't they? You could convert them to ttf using Fontforge.
What are some alternatives?
When comparing Font-Validator and fontforge you can also consider the following projects:
bitmap-fonts - Monospaced bitmap fonts for X11, good for terminal use.
Cozette - A bitmap programming font optimized for coziness 💜
birdfont - A font editor for creating fonts in TTF, EOT, SVG and BIRDFONT format.
dwm - Patches and config used to setup dwm
dotfiles - dotfiles
Glyphs-Scripts - Python scripts for the Glyphs font editor