birdfont
A font editor for creating fonts in TTF, EOT, SVG and BIRDFONT format. (by johanmattssonm)
fontforge
Free (libre) font editor for Windows, Mac OS X and GNU+Linux (by fontforge)
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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.
birdfont
Posts with mentions or reviews of birdfont.
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and similar projects. The last one was on 2023-01-27.
- Font Creation Tools?
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Looking for color font creator tools
All I what I saw are premium software. The only software I found at the lowest price is (FontBird)[https://birdfont.org/] = $10. But I don't know, I downloaded the free version (which doesn't support color fonts) and it seems to me that the software is not maintained well or glitchy!
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Generate color font
Try Birdfont - https://birdfont.org/
- Inape'eso Word of the Day 3
- What do you think about Bird font editor?
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How to create custom typeface for free
FontForge is the best free font editor right now, although there are some others in development. A great place to start learning is to read the Design with FontForge ebook, which will quickly teach you a lot of the basics that can be applied no matter which font editing software you're using. If you're struggling with FontForge, you can also try BirdFont which is a bit simpler.
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Key to my recent script (still working on it)
Besides, for adding the ligatures I use Birdfont for Linux.
- Birdfont - A cross-platform font editor
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Contextual form in BirdFont
If you don't find any other Birdfont users here, you could also try their Facebook group or post an issue on their Github repo.
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Any open source alternative to fontforge?
More seriously, not really. Well maybe you can try Birdfont but usually FontForge is regarded as the most complete free editor. Birdfont looks more simple so it might work for you, I don’t know much about it.
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 birdfont and fontforge you can also consider the following projects:
fontlab-python-docs - FontLab Python API
bitmap-fonts - Monospaced bitmap fonts for X11, good for terminal use.
calfonts-fontlab - Files that accompany the “Type design in FontLab 7 with Dave Lawrence (California Type Foundry)” video series
Cozette - A bitmap programming font optimized for coziness 💜
awesome-typography - ✏︎ Curated list about digital typography 🔥
dwm - Patches and config used to setup dwm
source-sans - Sans serif font family for user interface environments
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.
ttf-parser - A high-level, safe, zero-allocation TrueType font parser.
dotfiles - dotfiles
source-code-pro - Monospaced font family for user interface and coding environments
Glyphs-Scripts - Python scripts for the Glyphs font editor
birdfont vs fontlab-python-docs
fontforge vs bitmap-fonts
birdfont vs calfonts-fontlab
fontforge vs Cozette
birdfont vs awesome-typography
fontforge vs dwm
birdfont vs source-sans
fontforge vs Font-Validator
birdfont vs ttf-parser
fontforge vs dotfiles
birdfont vs source-code-pro
fontforge vs Glyphs-Scripts