gftools

Google Fonts Tools

This project contains tools used for working with the Google Fonts collection, plus Google Fonts Glyph Set Documentation in the /encodings subdirectory. While these tools are primarily intended for contributors to the Google Fonts project, anyone who works with fonts could find them useful.
Font downloader/manager

fnt

Font downloader/manager

Search, preview, and download more than 1800 fonts as user. It can download fonts from Debian sid and Google Web fonts repositories.

graide

IDE for Graphite GDL font description development

Graide is an IDE including a debugger that helps people develop Graphite GDL descriptions for smart fonts and compile them into fonts.

bitsnpicas

Bitmap & Emoji font creation & conversion tools

This is a set of tools for creating and converting bitmap and emoji fonts. Bitmap font functions can be accessed both with a GUI and from a command line. Emoji font functions can only be accessed from a command line.

vfit

generate backwards-compatible, static instances of variable fonts

This (Variable Font Instancing Tool) allows you to generate custom, static instances of a variable font defined in a configuration file.

python3-statmake

Applies STAT information from a Stylespace to a variable font

statmake takes a user-written Stylespace that defines OpenType STAT information for an entire font family and then (potentially subsets and) applies it to a specific variable font. This spares users from having to deal with raw TTX dumps and juggling with nameIDs.