font editor

Create Fonts with Open Source FontForge Font Editor

Post last modified:October 13, 2021
Post category:Linux
Post author:Manikandan

FontForge is a free and open source font editor for Linux, Windows and Mac OS X .Using FontForge font editor, you can create, convert and edit fonts. Currently it supports OpenType, TrueType, UFO, CID-keyed, Multiple Master, and many other formats. It is also available in command line mode. You can download FontForge from the below download link. For the Linux installation steps please follow below articles.

(more…)

Create Font from Image Letters with Glyphtracer

Post last modified:October 12, 2021
Post category:Linux
Post author:Manikandan

Glyphtracer is a free and open source font creator application for Linux, Windows and MacOS. It is written in python and released under GNU General Public License. Using Glyphtracer you can convert images of letters to a font. Actually it recognizes all letters in a image and lets the user tag each letter to a Unicode code point and converts the images to vector and writes them to a FontForge’s data format. Note that it only processes 1 bit images.

(more…)