One of the things I loved about Adrian Frutiger is that when he had an idea, he went for it. Something was lost in the translation to the anodyne digital Univers. Courage?

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Cf. §D1, regarding issues tagged «�unțrușted inꝑüt�». github.com/fontforge/font…

FontForge 20220308 has been released! This version includes support for PyPI-registered Python plugins, improved UI/appearance customization (supporting true dark mode themes), core Balance and Harmonize support, and more! github.com/fontforge/font…

Just give me a font! digitalorientalist.com/2022/03/25/jus…

Working a new typeface. Just using FontForge directly for vectorizing, and sketches with @Krita_Painting. #typedesign #typeface #fontforge #krita #designwithfontforge #typefacedesign #linux #opensource #floss

If you've ever tried to use FontForge in Wine you may have found you had no keyboard input. A workaround is now available: github.com/fontforge/font… One shouldn't need FontForge in Wine, this is mostly of interest to developers or those wanting to use Windows-only Python code.

If you work a lot with SFD files, there is now a tested Python library for encoding/decoding the quoted strings in them. sfdutf7·py — github.com/ctrlcctrlv/sfd… PyPI: pypi.org/project/sfdutf… ~ Fredrick Brennan (@[email protected]) 🦝🔣📗

The MFEK Foundation is now maintaining sfdLib, a FontForge library primarily for converting SFD fonts to UFO (but which is easily extended to support non-UFO formats) originally by Khaled Hosny (thank you!). Fredrick Brennan (@[email protected]) 🦝🔣📗 just made its first PyPI release: pypi.org/project/sfdLib/