Latest posts tagged with #FontForge on Bluesky
In a continuing flurry of boring #FontForge news, I ported two more dialogs to GTK: bitmap strikes and problem detector.
This boosts the number of modernized UI dialogs to 3 out of ~150. That's 2%, yay! 💪
#FontForge #GTK #opensource #FOSS
Fredrick Brennan, one of FontForge chief maintainers and a board member, passed away on January 10 at the age of 31.
I didn't work together with him, as I became involved with FontForge a few years after he moved on to develop MFEK. Nevertheless his essay "Why MFEK" ( […]
Screenshot of a variable axes interface from FontForge plugin
The first real FontForge plugin has landed! Just five years after the introduction of plugin framework, the Variable Font Plugin by @MihailJP@github.com is here. Grab your free copy at https://pypi.org/project/fontforge-variable-font/
#FontForge #opensource #typography
Today's FontForge shout-out 📢 goes to Skef, one of the long-term maintainers. He did an enormous amount of work to clean up the codebase for C++ compatibility and made the Python module importable by the standard Windows Python installation.
No screenshots today, but trust me, it was a really […]
#ZMAngband #traditionalroguelike #roguelikedev still glued to fckn' #FontForge and getting some decently nice designs. .fon fomat is like trying to read a throwing of ritual bones, pff, ridiculous. Sometimes I feel like a paleodev...
@lorenschmidt.bsky.social as I'm doing more test runs with the new rendered font, result of fidgeting around with #FontForge ,and quite quite happy with the upgraded look of it, I came across this, and thought of you automatically. See what my pet is :} . Attached more screenshots for appreciation.
Old dialog with an alphabetic list of languages
New dialog with the same list and a search box.
#FontForge has about 150 windows and dialogs, and I have converted 1 (one!) of them to GTK3. This firmly places us in nearly 1% of the total, and by the year 2100 this UI modernization project is very likely to be completed. 💪🏆
And it has a brand new search box […]
[Original post on kishkush.net]
10 years since I needed #FontForge ✨
Such a great tool, Open source.
Sometimes it’s great when things just do no change for the sake of PR and such
Screenshot of Font Information dialog for Scheherazade New font with a list of character variant parameters.
📢 Shoutout to Mihail (@MihailJP@github.com) who had an itch and scratched it! Character Variant Feature Parameters table support is out with https://github.com/fontforge/fontforge/pull/5662
In a perfect manifestation of the Baader-Meinhof phenomenon, this […]
[Original post on kishkush.net]
Screenshot of letter outlines in green color
Screenshot of Arabic inscription with complex connection between letters
Screenshot of a simple dialog with a numerical field input
Glad to announce the October 2025 FontForge release.
Some interesting stuff:
* Show CNC fonts in Font View
* Harfbuzz integration
* GTK3 support kick-off
#FontForge #typography #FOSS #GTK #GTK3
ive learnt that #fontforge is a nightmare to make pixel fonts in
why pray tell do you have bitmap functionality, but then dont make it easy to export the font
or like, make it easier to look at your bitmap font in the outline editor so you can actually make that outline?? archaic ass font maker
My Hero of the Day is @valadaptive@github.com, who came out of nowhere and, just like that, deleted 11K lines of FontForge legacy code.
After the initial shock and dismay, the rather conservative board eventually agreed, and today the PR was merged 🚀 […]
Ya esta papa!
Les presento Artefactos de Pulido
github.com/fotoliptofono/Pulido/rel...
la comencé en mayo cuando tuve diarrea, y aun esta incompleta, pero ya tiene MAYÚSCULAS, minúsculas y números, me inspire en los artefactos de fuente de […]
[Original post on mastodon.social]
An Arabic phrase written with disjoint letters
An Arabic phrase written with properly joined letters
FontForge now supports HarfBuzz-based font preview: https://github.com/fontforge/fontforge/pull/5522
Special thanks to Khaled Hosny @khaled for kind and thorough code review!
#FontForge #HarfBuzz #FOSS #opensource #typography
Glad to announce that #FontForge is officially migrating to GTK3 UI toolkit, starting with this PR: https://github.com/fontforge/fontforge/pull/5546
Special thanks to Joey Sabey https://github.com/Omnikron13 for his important proof-of-concept and GTK3 infrastructure work.
Special thanks to […]
Just got a maintainer access on #FontForge project. After some 20 years of being a user, the time has come to contribute back.
My first self-merged PR: https://github.com/fontforge/fontforge/pull/5558 💃
Send good vibes and PRs, I promise to review fast 👼
#FOSS #typography #fonts
It's been ages since I did algorithms for fun, but here I am, reading about 2D arrangements on plane. doc.cgal.org/latest/Arrangement_on_su...
Maybe this will become the new overlap removing algorithm for #FontForge, just maybe...
A screenshot of font eitor with a grid of letters and a sample text in big letters
One day, kid, you will be a font.
הברווזון המכוער מתחיל לקבל צורה. גם החלק הפחות כיפי של ספרות וסימני פיסוק מתקרב.
#Hebrew #font #typography #WIP #foss #fontforge
"Emboldens the selected glyphs by the given amount in em units. If em-units is a negative number, the glyphs are made less bold."
fontforge.org/docs/scripti... #FontForge
A screenshot of FontForge software window displaying green nonclosed outlines of CNC letters arranged in a grid, together with accompanying dialog.
A nice enhancement to FontForge: the font view can now show glyph outlines, which are especially useful for single-stroke CNC fonts.
https://github.com/fontforge/fontforge/pull/5496
#FontForge #FOSS
Hi Fedi, help with Mac testing needed! :apple_inc:
I recently opened a PR for FontForge (https://github.com/fontforge/fontforge/pull/5546 which introduces a GTK3-based UI in a very limited manner.
If you have a Mac and a bit of spare time, I would be really grateful to receive some feedback […]
21/21 An as a treat for the end of the thread: an ad in my feed - I think the search engines caught up to me and my liking of the font.
If you know more - send them towards me, much appreciated!
#font #fonts #graphicdesign #design #scifi #aesthetics #forge #fontforge #ethnocentric
Lords, Lordettes and everyone who wants to listen.
I updated my ethnocentric shrine with a bunch of new examples: ancient-pixel.com/ethnocentric
And I will provide the examples in this mega thread as well!
#font #fonts #graphicdesign #design #scifi #aesthetics #forge #fontforge #ethnocentric
Ez a szerzői jog megsértése lenne, emiatt én sosem tennék ilyet, hogy nyilvánosságra hozom. 😜
#fontforge ftw
[Volt, hogy visszaküldtem a szerzőnek és megköszönte, és azt mondta, hogy jó lett, publikálja is. Legtöbbször ignoráltak. 🥺]
Getting more of this font/cypher made well bumping @marottes.bsky.social Cleveland set list. Got to get things flowing.
#asemicwriting #cypher #art #runes #wip #fontforge
A screenshot showing á and Í characters with their accent marks cut off in a straight line above the line I would expect from the screenshot in fontforge (which is overlayed on top of the font). To the right is a screenshot of the fontforge window open with the á character outline displayed in the program.
Anyone with #fontforge or other #font experience have any good resources you could point me toward to deal with adding accent marks (acutecomb shown) to a custom font? I'm certain that I'm just missing some foundational concept. At the moment, I'm not clear why […]
[Original post on social.coop]
