glyphsLib
A bridge from Glyphs source files (.glyphs) to UFOs (by googlefonts)
fontmake
Compile fonts from sources (UFO, Glyphs) to binary (OpenType, TrueType). (by googlefonts)
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| 8.7 | 8.3 | |
| 5 days ago | 8 days ago | |
| Python | Python | |
| Apache License 2.0 | Apache License 2.0 |
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glyphsLib
Posts with mentions or reviews of glyphsLib.
We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives
and similar projects. The last one was on 2023-01-27.
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[Media] I'm making a new open source font editor with gtk-rs. I just managed to make non-linear curves with my Bézier path tool for the first time!
I already use glyphsLib, another googlefonts python3 library, to import .glyphs files and convert them to UFOv3 with the pyo3 crate (python3 bindings). It's very straightforward to do this stuff this way if there aren't rust crates that do what you want already
- Glyphs source files (.glyphs) to UFOs | This Python 3.6+ library provides a bridge from Glyphs source files (.glyphs) to UFOs and Designspace files via defcon and designspaceLib.
- googlefonts/glyphsLib | This Python 3.6+ library provides a bridge from Glyphs source files (.glyphs) to UFOs and Designspace files via defcon and designspaceLib.
fontmake
Posts with mentions or reviews of fontmake.
We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives
and similar projects. The last one was on 2023-01-27.
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[Media] I'm making a new open source font editor with gtk-rs. I just managed to make non-linear curves with my Bézier path tool for the first time!
this is a production quality compiler from ufo to otf/ttf: https://github.com/googlefonts/fontmake
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Tools for the creation of variable fonts
If you have your masters ready you can just use fontmake. I think you can generate .ufos with Font Forge right?
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So I want to create a Font...
However I also just did a quick test to confirm that Glyphs Mini uses the same native .glyphs file format and you can use fontmake on a Glyphs Mini file to quickly build an OTF, TTF and UFO file via fontmake -g NewFont.glyphs. The only issue you might run into with this is if you're using proprietary Glyphs features like smart components in your design, because fontmake does not support them. If you're that advanced, you would probably benefit from upgrading to the full Glyphs app anyway.
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Making a font less bold
fontmake is a free command-line tool that can generate .ttf/.otf font files from a .glyphs source file.
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FontCreator 14 released with variable font support
Here’s GitHub for FontMake
What are some alternatives?
When comparing glyphsLib and fontmake you can also consider the following projects:
BezierInfo-2 - The development repo for the Primer on Bézier curves, https://pomax.github.io/bezierinfo
atkinson-hyperlegible