TruFont is a font-editing application.
The software is written with Python3, ufoLib, defcon, and PyQt5.
The software is inspired by Robofont. Unlike Robofont, it’s released under an open source license.
Key Features
- Native UFO3 font editor.
- Clean and easy-to-use interface.
- Set a of Qt bindings on top of Defcon and a basic font-editor environment.
- Open UFO files and manipulate Bézier contours, adjust spacing and metrics, and other simple tasks
- Basic selection and drawing tools. The toolset is similar to vector-editing tools.
- Files saved in the .UFO format: Unified Font Object, a cross-platform, cross-application, human readable, future proof format for storing font data.
- Cross-platform support – runs under Linux, Mac OS X, and Windows.
The TruFont project uses the following libraries: booleanOperations, cu2qu, defcon, defconQt, extractor, fontttools, hsluv, ufoLib, and ufo2ft.
Website: trufont.github.io
Support: GitHub code repository
Developer: Adrien Tétar and contributors
License: GNU General Public License v3.0
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