Font Tools

ftCLI – edit fonts using FontTools

ftCLI is a command line interface built with click to edit fonts using FontTools.

Python 3.7 or later is required to install ftCLI.

This is free and open source software.

Provides the commands:

  • assistant – a set of tools to correctly compile the name table and set proper values for
    usWeightClass, usWidthClass, bold, italic and oblique bits.
  • metrics – vertical metrics tools: align, copy, and set-linegap.
  • names – a set of command line tools to manipulate `name` table entries.
  • os2 – command line OS/2 table editor.
  • print – prints various font information.
  • utils – miscellaneous utilities such as drop hinting from all glyphs, rename fonr fales, extract .ttc fonts to otf/ttf fonts.
  • webfonts – web fonts related tools:
    • compress – converts OpenType fonts to WOFF/WOFF2 format.
    • decompress – converts WOFF/WOFF2 files to OpenType format.
    • makecss – parses all WOFF and WOFF2 files in INPUT_PATH and creates a CSS stylesheet to use them on web pages.

Website: github.com/ftCLI/ftCLI
Support:
Developer: ftCLI
License: MIT License

ftCLI

ftCLI is written in Python. Learn Python with our recommended free books and free tutorials.


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