@FontForge

FontForge is a free and open source font editor for all major platforms. This account announces new features as they land in developer builds and new releases.

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Joined September 2012
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The MFEK Foundation is now maintaining sfdLib, a @FontForge library primarily for converting SFD fonts to UFO (but which is easily extended to support non-UFO formats) originally by @KhaledGhetas (thank you!). @fr_brennan just made its first PyPI release: pypi.org/project/sfdLib/
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Working a new typeface. Just using @FontForge directly for vectorizing, and sketches with @Krita_Painting. #typedesign #typeface #fontforge #krita #designwithfontforge #typefacedesign #linux #opensource #floss
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Just give me a font! digitalorientalist.com/2022/…

Just give me a font!

The headache of working with archaic Chinese orthographies Technologically, we scholars of the 21st century are spoiled. We sit at our desks, turn on our shiny machines, and access digital archives…

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FontForge retweeted
FontForge@FontForge11 Jun 2021
ご要望にお応えして、irc.libera.​chat で #fontforge を公開しました #archlinux のような大規模なチャンネルを含む多くのチャンネルが転送されました 残りのFreenodeユーザにはLibera.​chatを使うようにお願いしていました （２中１）
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One of the things I loved about Adrian Frutiger is that when he had an idea, he went for it. Something was lost in the translation to the anodyne digital Univers. Courage?
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In 1989, Dale Schumacher made a square X11 font, perfect for games. @behdadesfahbod's excellent HarfBuzz text shaper has dropped BDF support. So, I wrote a script to convert BDF fonts to OpenType Bitmap format. The first font I converted is clR8x8: github.com/ctrlcctrlv/clR8x8
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RELEASE: FRB American Cursive Thanks @MattRBlanchard (MFEKstroke), @simoncozens (beziers‌.py, FEE), @FontForge FRB American Cursive is a textbook hand family unlike any other. All letters seamlessly connect. Full color guidelines are available. github.com/ctrlcctrlv/FRBAme…
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Hey font Twitter 🔡🔠🔣 Look what I made! Placing anchors quick in @FontForge isn't easy. Both UIs for it (OpenType mark dialog, CharView) are slow for batch work. So I made my own! But not in C. I used Tkinter, which FontForge works somewhat well with. github.com/ctrlcctrlv/QuickA…
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FontForge retweeted
FontForge@FontForge31 Jan 2021
Replying to @davelab6 @hw_beat_that
As of the merger of PR №4531 (December 13, 2020), thanks to the feedback from you and others, FontForge no longer defaults to reserving font names. This change is already in developer builds and will be in the next release.
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How to make your own font, using @FontForge and @inkscape kirill-live.itch.io/tuesday-… #indiegames #visualnovel #vn #vndev #vnline #javascript #github #gamedev #font

How to make your own font

I've noticed that a lot of people think it's very difficult to create a custom font and therefore use font sprite technology. A font sprite has its advantages, but one significant drawback is that...

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FontForge@FontForge12 Dec 2020
Replying to @jack_jennings @nadyakzmn @roboFontEditor
FontForge by default saves a timestamp into all fonts it generates. This goes into the FFTM table. Until recently, this could not be disabled. However the newest releases can do so for file size reasons. I'm not aware of anyone using the feature in production yet.
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Optometrist: "Can you read those letters for me?" Me: "I should warn you, I work with fonts." True story.
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(Paraphrased, via IRC.) “OK Fred, you've shown that it's possible to create variable fonts in @FontForge sure, but certainly you can’t create a variable font using open source software as fast as I can in @glyphsapp!” (Unspoken: Only using FOSS to make fonts is quixotic.)
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How does it work? Very simple. You draw the path you want each point to take. For now, only one Bézier spline is allowed. maximum for each point.
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Coming soon from me: higher-order interpolation, also known as non-linear interpolation, in @FontForge. Exports to conventional OpenType font format via fontmake! Four UFO masters all come from one base SFD file. A simple script only around 200 lines long does most of the work.
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Finally, I returned to use the @FontForge to handle the Kawi Script. It still borrows the Latin codepoint but soon will be replaced with the proper Kawi codepoint when it released by @unicode . The font style based on Dharma Patanjala manuscript. #Indonesianscripts #kawiscript
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FRB Taiwanese Kana font (ＦＲＢ臺灣語假名) v1.1 Thanks to @suannkia @mandel59 @KhaledGhetas @simoncozens @ken_lunde Made in @FontForge Examples are only HTML and CSS. The vertical layout is done entirely in OpenType. It converts e.g. シイ𛨈 コン𛨁 to what you see. :-)
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📝 Notes on #FontForge/@FontForge font editor usage & its internals (in Japanese 🇯🇵) written by 'Azel' (developer of 🖌 #AzPainter painting app) 👉 aznote.jakou.com/fforge/inde…
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Florian@hardwig24 Jun 2020
Help! Is this Arabic? isthisarabic.com/ … or is it just gibberish, rendered left-to-right, with unconnected letterforms, in the wrong language, or even in pseudo-Arabic Latin? A helpful website made by @tha_rami 👏(via @PixelAmbacht)
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FontForge retweeted
FontForge@FontForge7 Jun 2020
Did you know that this is your Twitter account? All that, and more, in our new community and developer guidelines: github.com/fontforge/fontfor…
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