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