awesome-typography

Technical Note #5176

the-cff-table

Markdown conversion of the Adobe Tech notes 5176 and 5177 about CFF

Introduction to OpenType features for type designers.

Brief excursion into OpenType

OpenType.js

Read and write OpenType fonts

opentype-layout

Experimental word-wrapping and layout for OpenType.js

canvas-text-opentypejs-shim

Consistent text rendering for

CharacterMap

Online Character Map / Glyph / Icon / Font Viewer

Parse OTF/TTF file format directory from buffers for metadata

fontkit

Advanced font engine for Node and the browser

Minimal-font-generator

Font's Hello world

simple-cff-builder

Simple CFF builder for testing fonts with different Type2 charstrings

ttf2woff2

Convert TTF files to WOFF2

ttf2woff

Convert TTF to WOFF, for Node.js

sfnt2woff

Convert TTF or OTF to WOFF, support Node.js and Browsers

ttf2eot

Convert TTF to EOT for Node.js

cubic2quad

Aproximates cubic bezier curves with quadratic ones

SVG font creator

Create SVG font from separate images

node-sfnt

SFNT parser and generator for Node.js

node-unicode-data

JavaScript-compatible Unicode data generator

fontwr

Font manager for web projects

Open Type playground

Playground for Open Type experiments with CSS

ChromaCheck

Feature test for color font support in browsers

Font Face Observer

Font load events, simple, small and efficient

Web Font Loader

Web Font Loader gives you added control when using linked fonts via @font-face

localFont

Implement localStorage web font caching in seconds

Fontello

This tool lets you combine icon webfonts for your own project

GitHub Font Preview

Adds a preview for fonts & glyphs on GitHub with OpenType.js

unidata

Unicode Character Database for JavaScript

UCD

Unicode Character Database for JavaScript

Character Set Inspector

Unicode Character Database for JavaScript

OpenType

OpenType font parser in JavaScript

opentype-geometry

Convert Text from OpenType font to three.js 3D

Plumin.js

Create and manipulate fonts in the browser

Typr.js

Process fonts in JavaScript

fonteditor-core

Read, write, transform fonts in JavaScript

fontmin

Minify font seamlessly

fontfacegen

Browser font-face generator for creating browser usable fonts from TTF's or OTF's

NType

4D Type Extruder

node-emoji

😏 simple emoji support for Node.js projects

custom-fonts-in-emails

Extremely easy way to use custom fonts in emails without having to use art software

Google Fonts Infos

Extract info out of the Google Fonts archive

Hyphenopoly.js

JavaScript polyfill for client-side hyphenation

Hyphenator.js

JavaScript that implements client-side hyphenation of HTML-Documents

Hypher

Fast and small JavaScript hyphenation engine

Typeset.js

HTML pre-processor for web typography (hanging punctuation, soft hyphen insertion, optical margin outdents, small-caps conversion and punctuation substitution)

Typeset

TeX line breaking algorithm in JavaScript

otfcc-cubic2quad

Losslessly turn CFF OTF to TTF using otfcc

caryll / shapeops

Boolean operations and overlap removal for curves

OpenType-SVG Workshop

OpenType-SVG Workshop Web application

A-binary-parser-generator

This project aims to create a tool that can turn a spec file into a parser skeleton for binary data files such as OpenType fonts, PNG images, etc

font-spider

Smart webfont compression and format conversion tool

Brotli.js

A JavaScript port of the Brotli compression algorithm, as used in WOFF2

Optimized hinter for Ideographs

subfont

Command line tool to inject Google font subsets used glyphs into your page

webfont

Awesome generator of webfont, WOFF2, WOFF, EOT, TTF and SVG

grapheme-splitter

JavaScipt library that breaks strings into their individual user-perceived characters

unicode-properties

Provides fast access to unicode character properties

unicode-tr51-emoji

Emoji data extracted from Unicode Technical Report #51 v1.0 – v5.0

fontblast

Give me an icon-font, and I'll create individual SVG/PNG files for all icons in it

fontplop

Fast, Simple, & Free Open Source Webfont Converter

svgfont2svgicons

Extract SVG icons from an SVG font

glyphhanger

Your web font utility belt. It shows what unicode-ranges are used on a web site (optionally for a font-family or for each font-family). It can also subset web fonts

Punycode.js

Robust Punycode converter that fully complies to RFC 3492 and RFC 5891

code-point-at

ES2015 String#codePointAt() ponyfill

First open-source library that detects the font of a text in a image

node-fonttools

Native bindings to fonttools to decompile and compile fonts

font-toolkit

Font file manipulating in TypeScript

variableFont.js

Handles variable fonts through OpenType.js

fontTools

Library for manipulating fonts, written in Python

fontmake

Compile fonts from sources (UFO, Glyphs) to binary (OpenType, TrueType)

FontReport

Tool to create PDF files containing glyph images and information about a font

fontdiff

Tool for finding visual differences between two font versions

kern-dump

Scripts for working with and analyzing kerning information (ATypI 2013)

cu2qu

Cubic-to-quadratic bezier curve conversion

Font Bakery

Tools to prepare font families for inclusion in github.com/google/fonts

glyphNameFormatter

Generate list of glyphnames from unicode names

woffTools

Library for working with WOFF files

pyftfeatfreeze

With pyftfeatfreeze, you can “freeze” some OpenType features into a font

RoboFab

Library with objects that deal with data usually associated with fonts and type design

pyfontaine

Python tool to check font files for language/character set support

Glyph Nanny

Live report about potential drawing issues in your glyph

Kernagic

Semi-automatic font spacing tool

Huerta Tipográfica Letterspacer

HT Letterspacer is a tool for spacing fonts

OpenType-SVG Tools

Tools and sample files for making OpenType-SVG fonts

boxDrawing.py

Python script to draw all the box drawing characters and block elements based on parameters

scfbuild

Create OpenType-SVG color fonts from a set of SVG source files

Tool to build color fonts using Google color-font format (CBDT/CBLC)

monospacifier.py

Convert variable-pitch fonts to monospace (useful for unicode and indentation-friendly programming)

edf825/SVG-OpenType-Utils

SVG in OpenType Utils (!Old: 2013)

Icon Font to PNG

Python script (and library) for exporting icons from icon fonts (e.g. Font Awesome, Octicons) as PNG images

Compositor

Basic OpenType GSUB and GPOS layout engine

UFO Extractor

Tools for extracting data from font binaries into UFO objects

Noto Tools

Noto fonts support tools and scripts

compreffor

CFF table subroutinizer for FontTools

font-line

OpenType vertical metrics reporting and font line spacing adjustment tool

Library for creating and manipulating digital forms of fine arts

PageBot

Scripted page layout program, as application inside Drawbot generating high quality typographic documents that support high quality fonts

otfcc

Parses & writes SFNT structures

AFDKO

Adobe Font Development Kit for OpenType. See

stb_truetype

Parse, decode, and rasterize characters for TrueType fonts. Single header file

Freely available software library to render fonts

Raqm

Library for complex text layout

SheenFigure

Implementation of advanced typographic tables of OpenType specification

SheenBidi

SheenBidi is the world's most sophisticated implementation of latest unicode bidirectional algorithm

freetype-gl

OpenGL text using one vertex buffer, one texture and FreeType

WOFF

WOFF conversion reference code

font to svg

Render characters from font files into an SVG path

LCDF Typetools

Utilities for manipulating OpenType, PostScript Type 1, and Multiple Master fonts

HarfBuzz OpenType text shaping engine

FontView

Demo app that displays fonts with a free/libre/open-source text rendering stack: FreeType, HarfBuzz and Raqm

Text rendering tests

Test suite for text rendering

FTGLES

TrueType font rendering library for OpenGL ES on iOS devices (iPad and iPhone)

TTFPatch

Mirror of TTFPATCH by Wolfram Esser, modified to support fonts conforming to newer OTF specifications, built for modern versions of Windows

stb-truetype-opengl-examples

Examples of TrueType font rendering in C++11 using stb_truetype library and OpenGL 3+

NRasterizer

Simple and clean TrueType font renderer written purely in c#

Typography

C# Font Reader (TrueType / OpenType / OpenFont), Glyphs Layout and Rendering

SixLabors.Fonts

Font loading and drawing library

SharpFont

Pure managed TTF / OTF reader and renderer

sfntly

Library for Using, Editing, and Creating SFNT-based Fonts

Emoji-Tools

Multiple useful tools to help Android and iOS/OSX developers with creating and modifying Emoji Font files

Tehreer-Android

Library that gives full control over text related technologies such as bidirectional algorithm, open type shaping engine, text typesetting and text rendering

emoji-extractor

Extracts high-resolution emoji pngs from Apple Color Emoji.ttf

font

Command-line font manager

font

Parsing OpenType fonts in Golang

freetype

Freetype font rasterizer in Go

font-rs

The fastest font renderer in the world

font-kit

A cross-platform font loading library

RustType

Pure Rust alternative to libraries like FreeType

Pathfinder

Fast, practical GPU rasterizer for OpenType fonts

freetype-rs

Rust bindings for FreeType library

freetype-sys

Low level bindings for the FreeType font library

truetype

Library for reading fonts from the TrueType format

PHP Font Lib

Library to read, parse, export and make subsets of different types of font files

JoliTypo

Microtypography fixer for the web

PHP SmartyPants

SmartyPants is a free web typography prettifyier tool for web writers. It easily translates plain ASCII punctuation characters into "smart" typographic punctuation HTML entities

Fast & easy-to-use parser for true-type font (TTF) file

Fontastic

Processing library to create TrueType font files

opentype.clj

A simple API over OpenType.js for Clojure. Runs on the JVM

ufo-spec

The official Unified Font Object specification source files

ufoLib

Low-level UFO reader and writer

ufoNormalizer

Tool that will normalize the XML and other data inside of a UFO

ufo2ft

UFO to FontTools

ufoJS

JavaScript API for the Unified Font Object

Adobe Illustrator & Photoshop extensions for creating vector and bitmap fonts by Drag&Drop. Make fonts the easy way!

UFO based (Mac only)

Font editor (Mac only)

Prototypo

Web based font generator with a parametric approach

Font editor for font professionals. Version 5 for Mac and Windows

Highly sophisticated application for reviewing, editing and altering tables and contours of fonts with a snft file structure, as there are CFF and TTF flavored OpenType fonts, TrueType fonts and TrueType Collection fonts

Professional text and hex editing with Binary Templates technology.

Reverse Engineering and Binary File Analysis made easy.

Universal font converter

FontForge

Free (libre) font editor for Windows, Mac OS X and GNU+Linux

TruFont

UFO3 font editor. À l’ancienne

Web-based GUI for creating UFO and Metafont fonts

Birdfont

Font editor which can generate fonts in TTF, EOT, SVG and BF format

Free, web-based font editor, focusing on font design hobbyists

In the Light editions of dtl OTMaster only the saving of files is disabled. Checking fonts and exporting OpenType Layout features files, be and ik formats, and Character Layout (.cha) files is possible though

fonteditor

Web-based TTF font editor, live at

FontArk is an innovative browser-based font editor, font creator (BETA), featuring the most versatile real-time multiple glyph editing system

TrueType fonts editor. Allows for editing vector-based glyphs

SdfFontDesigner

A generator of bitmap font, based on ttf & otf, rendered with custom shaders in glsl

Font Validator

Font Validator is a tool for testing fonts prior to release. See

OpenType Sanitiser

The OpenType Sanitiser (OTS) parses and serialises OpenType files (OTF, TTF) and WOFF and WOFF2 font files, validating them and sanitising them as it goes

Online WOFF Validator

Axis-Praxis is a website for playing with OpenType variable fonts in modern browsers

Test your local or remote fonts with the proofing tool developed by a type designer, for type designers. Check out kerning, OpenType features, and language coverage. Explore and animate variation axes in variable fonts

The Font Testing Page is a tool primarily intended for type designers to 'Drag and Drop' and quickly test their fonts into a browser (active fork of Impallari's testing page)

The Dinamo Font Gauntlet is a tool for proofing, generating and animating fonts

The tool that answers the question “what can my font do?”

Layout tools for exerimenting with variable fonts in various ways

Discussion forum for professionals and enthusiasts in the fields of typeface design, lettering, and typography

Upload OTF or TTF fonts, receive webfonts

The State of Web Type

"Can I Use" for typography

Open Source typefaces

ofont

Web interface for font collections (used by usemodify.com)

designwithfontforge.com

Book about how to design new typefaces with FontForge. See

FontTesting Page

Webpage for testing typefaces

CSS Utility OpenType

Simple, CSS utility classes for advanced typographic features. See it

Alfred Special Characters

Typefacts Special Characters Workflow for Alfred 3

Badly drawn outlines can cause headache. Your letters may look mangled or not appear at all. You can avoid these difficulties if you keep a few basic rules in mind

What are OpenType features?

Typography terms in images

Emoj

Find relevant emoji from text on the command-line 😮 ✨ 🙌 🐴 💥 🙈

Bite-sized summary of what's happening in the world of emoji and Unicode

Crypto Puzzles

Functions for encryption and stegonagraphy as puzzles or brain teasers.

Font Development Best Practice documentation

Explore and convert Unicode

unicodes

Browse all of the unicodes

Method of Action is a collection of tools, games and articles to help you learn design

What every programmer absolutely, positively needs to know about encodings and character sets to work with text

Kernall

Kerning and letterspacing research

Type Facet

Collection of Python scripts for working with fonts. See

OpenType feature reference

Documentation and other info about advanced font features

An inventory of typographic tools

OpenType Feature Bundle

Syntax highlighting and snippets for OpenType feature development in TextMate/Sublime Text

Type Tools dotfiles

Setup for type tools

AGL & AGLFN

AGL / AGLFN (Adobe Glyph List / For New Fonts) simply provides mappings from glyph names to Unicode scalar values.

I Can Variable Font

Tips for making variable fonts

Resourceful links to emoji-related sites, plug-ins, and apps

OpenType_Table_Source

Documentation for Monotype's OpenType Layout Source File Format

jenskutilek/TypoLabs2016

Code examples from Jens Kutilek's TypoLabs workshop

Fonts on the Web

Twitter Emoji (Twemoji)

The Twemoji library offers support for +2k emojis, including skin tone and gender modifiers

EmojiOne

EmojiOne™ is the open emoji standard

The practical guide to why laying out type never quite does what you want

The way JavaScript handles Unicode is… surprising, to say the least

homebrew-webfonttools

Homebrew formulae for font tools

Font Falsehoods

Falsehoods programmers believe about fonts

The new podcast about letterpress

Newsletter on font loading by @zachleat

Font-Awesome-SVG-PNG

Font Awesome split to individual SVG and PNG files of different sizes along with Node.js based generator

The Gilbert Font

OpenType-SVG font named after Gilbert Baker, the creator of the rainbow flag

Nanofont

Nano font for testing font format support (TrueType, WOFF, WOFF2)

FiraSystemFontReplacement

Modified version of the Fira Sans fonts to replace the default system font on Mac OS X 10.10 and 10.11

SansBullshitSans Font

Every buzzword will be replaced by a Comic Sans-styled censorship bar

Blackout

One font to blackout them all

Compyx

8-bit Multicolor OpenType font

LapisLegit

OpenType-SVG testfont

AIFont

The fist Chinese font that generated artificial intelligent

Noto Fonts

Noto’s goal is to provide a beautiful reading experience for all languages

Noto Emoji

Color and Black-and-White Noto emoji fonts, and tools for working with them

EmojiOne COLR/CPAL

EmojiOne font in COLR/CPAL layered format

EmojiOne OpenType-SVG

Color emoji OpenType-SVG font using EmojiOne Unicode 9.0 emoji with diversity and country flags

Twitter Color Emoji Font

Color emoji OpenType-SVG font using Twitter Unicode 9.0 emoji with diversity and country flags

Building Bixa Color, a color font for the web

fontwr-fonts

Fonts repository for fontwr

Bungee

Chromatic signage typeface for vertical and horizontal setting

Aerial Bold is the first map and typeface of the earth

wavefont

Typeface for rendering data: waveforms, spectrums, diagrams, bars etc

Adobe Variable Font Prototype

Variable font example in OpenType-CFF2 & TrueType formats

Microsoft open source fonts

Central location to share Microsoft's open source fonts

Reinebow

OpenType-SVG color font

Freizer

OpenType-SVG color font

Multicoloure

OpenType-SVG color font based on Multicolore Vector Typeface

null-ttf

This font is null. It's the smallest possible TrueType binary still valid on OS X and with most of its bytes wiped out

CFF opcode test fonts

OTF fonts for testing CFF opcode support

TestFont

Font family for testing OpenType implementations

BuffaloGals

Buffalo Gals is one of the very first “Variable Fonts”, originally made in 1992 for an Apple TrueType GX developer CD

Adobe Fonts / Source Emoji

Source Emoji is an emoji font project that began development in order to provide monochrome representative glyphs to the Unicode Consortium for emoji candidates that have been accepted by the UTC (Unicode Technical Committee) but have not yet been fully ratified to become a part of the official standard

Hasklig

Code font with monospaced ligatures

Firefox OS Emojis

Emoji set from Mozilla available as SVGs and TTF font

Iosevka

Slender typeface for code, from code

Raleway

Elegant sans-serif, designed in a single thin weight

Adobe NotDef

Maps 1,111,998 Unicode code points to 2,048 .notdef glyphs

Adobe Blank

Maps 1,111,998 Unicode code points to 2,048 non-spacing and non-marking glyphs

Adobe Blank 2

Based on Adobe Blank, and differs mainly in that the number of glyphs has been reduced to only two, thanks to the Format 13 'cmap' subtable

Width Test

For testing width-related GSUB features, specifically 'fwid' (Full Widths), 'hwid' (Half Widths), 'twid' (Third Widths), and 'qwid' (Quarter Widths)

Source Han Sans

Set of OpenType/CFF Pan-CJK fonts

Source Han Serif

Set of OpenType/CFF Pan-CJK fonts

Will provide open and free access to visual communications technology, namely emoji, for the entire universe

Overpass

Open source font family inspired by Highway Gothic

List (Big!) with descriptions

From Advanced Typography to Unicode and Everything in Between

There are hundreds of different encoding systems for mapping characters to numbers, but Unicode promises a single mapping.