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Awesome typography Awesome

Curated list about typography

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OpenType

Javascript

Python

  • fontmake Compile fonts from sources (UFO, Glyphs) to binary (OpenType, TrueType).
  • FontReport Tool to create PDF files containing glyph images and information about a font.
  • fontdiff A tool for finding visual differences between two font versions
  • Fontuley Font tools (inspect / modify fonts)
  • kern-dump Scripts for working with and analyzing kerning information (ATypI 2013)
  • cu2qu Cubic-to-quadratic bezier curve conversion
  • Font Bakery Tools to prepare font families for inclusion in github.com/google/fonts
  • glyphNameFormatter Generate list of glyphnames from unicode names.
  • woffTools A library for working with WOFF files.
  • pyftfeatfreeze With pyftfeatfreeze, you can “freeze” some OpenType features into a font.
  • RoboFab RoboFab http://robofab.org

C

  • otfcc Parses & writes SFNT structures.
  • AFDKO Adobe Font Development Kit for OpenType. See AFDKO Overview
  • stb_truetype Parse, decode, and rasterize characters for TrueType fonts. Single header file.
  • FreeType Freely available software library to render fonts.

C++

  • font to svg Render characters from font files into an SVG path
  • LCDF Typetools Utilities for manipulating OpenType, PostScript Type 1, and Multiple Master fonts.
  • HarfBuzz HarfBuzz OpenType text shaping engine

Java

  • sfntly A Library for Using, Editing, and Creating SFNT-based Fonts
  • Emoji-Tools Multiple useful tools to help Android and iOS/OSX developers with creating and modifying Emoji Font files.

Ruby

  • emoji-extractor Extracts high-resolution emoji pngs from Apple Color Emoji.ttf
  • font A command-line font manager

Tools with GUI

Free

  • FontForge Free (libre) font editor for Windows, Mac OS X and GNU+Linux
  • TruFont A ufo3 font editor. À l’ancienne.
  • fontTools A library for manipulating fonts, written in Python.
  • Metapolator Web-based GUI for creating UFO and Metafont fonts.
  • Birdfont A font editor which can generate fonts in TTF, EOT, SVG and BF format.
  • Glyphr Studio A free, web-based font editor, focusing on font design hobbyists.
  • DTL OTMaster Light In the Light editions of dtl OTMaster only the saving of files is disabled. Checking fonts and exporting OpenType Layout features files, be and ik formats, and Character Layout (.cha) files is possible though.

Non-Free

  • Robofont UFO based, mac only, font editor.
  • Glyphs Font editor (Mac)
  • Prototypo Web based font generator with a parametric approach.
  • Fontself Adobe Illustrator extension for creating font with Drag&Drop, borned on Kickstarter.
  • FontLab Studio Font editor for font professionals. Version 5 for Mac and Windows.
  • DTL OTMaster DTL OTMaster (OTM), is a highly sophisticated application for reviewing, editing and altering tables and contours of fonts with a snft file structure, as there are CFF and TTF flavored OpenType fonts, TrueType fonts and TrueType Collection fonts.

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TrueType

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