GNU fontopia is an easy-to-use, text-based, console font editor. You can edit the fonts that your GNU/Linux kernel is using to display your text on text- based (vs graphical) terminals.

This package provides a tool that can be used to make font samples that show coverage of the font and are similar in appearance to Unicode Charts. It was developed for use with DejaVu Fonts project.

This package also includes the pdfoutline script, which can be used to modify outlines (machine-readable tables of contents) in PDF files.

FontoBene-Qt is a header-only library to parse FontoBene stroke fonts with C++11/Qt.

LCDF Typetools comprises several programs for manipulating PostScript Type 1, Type 1 Multiple Master, OpenType, and TrueType fonts. These tools are cfftot1, mmafm, mmpfb, otfinfo, otftotfm, t1dotlessj, t1lint, t1rawfm, t1reencode, t1testpage and ttftotype42.

This Python package processes and generates instances for UFO files, glyphs and other data. It can, among other things:

• Collect source materials.

• Provide mutators for specific glyphs, font info, kerning so that other tools can generate partial instances.

• Support designspace format 4 with layers.

• Apply avar-like designspace bending.

• Apply rules.

• Generate actual UFO instances in formats 2 and 3.

• Round geometry as requested.

This package contains a commandline wrapper around OpenTypeUtilities.cpp from Chromium, used to make EOT (Embeddable Open Type) files from TTF (TrueType/OpenType Font) files.

Nototools is a Python package containing Python scripts used to maintain the Noto Fonts project.

Birdfont is a font editor which can create vector graphics and export TTF, EOT, and SVG fonts. It includes a graphical as well as a commandline interface.

This package provides a CFF subroutinizer for fontTools.

MutatorMath is a Python library for the calculation of piecewise linear interpolations in n-dimensions with any number of masters. It was developed for interpolating data related to fonts, but if can handle any arithmetic object.

The ufoLib2 Python library is meant to be a thin representation of the Unified Font Object (UFO) version 3 data model, intended for programmatic manipulation and fast batch processing of UFOs. It resembles the defcon library, but does without notifications, the layout engine and other support classes. Where useful and possible, ufoLib2 tries to be API-compatible with defcon.

Beziers provides a variety of classes for constructing, manipulating and drawing Bezier curves and paths. Principally designed for font design software, it allows you to join, split, offset, and perform many other operations on paths.

Potrace is a tool for tracing a bitmap, which means, transforming a bitmap into a smooth, scalable image. The input is a bitmap (PBM, PGM, PPM, or BMP format), and the default output is an encapsulated PostScript file (EPS). A typical use is to create EPS files from scanned data, such as company or university logos, handwritten notes, etc. The resulting image is not "jaggy" like a bitmap, but smooth. It can then be rendered at any resolution.

This package provides Python bindings for the Path Ops module of the Skia library, performing boolean operations on paths (intersection, union, difference, xor).

Font Manager is intended to provide a way for users to easily manage desktop fonts, without having to resort to command-line tools or editing configuration files by hand. While designed primarily with the GNOME Desktop Environment in mind, it should work well with other GTK desktop environments.

PSF is the simple monospaced bitmap font format used by the Linux kernel for console fonts. The PSF Tools convert between PSF and many other font formats, similar to what the NetPBM package does for images.

It includes converters for a good number of common bitmap font formats such as .BDF, .FNT, and .FON files, Berkeley vfonts, classic Amstrad/Sinclair/Hercules/BBC Micro soft fonts, and raw (DOS-style) fonts.

It also supports less traditional formats such as PBM/XBM images, plain text (for rudimentary editing), and C header files.

ufo2ft (UFO to FontTools) is a fork of ufo2fdk intended to leverage FontTools (a Python library) rather than the Adobe Font Development Kit for OpenType (AFDKO), a set of C libraries/utilities so that it can be more easily extended. Like ufo2fdk, its primary purpose is to generate OpenType font binaries from Unified Font Objects (UFOs).

LibUniNamesList holds www.unicode.org Nameslist.txt data which can be useful for programs that need Unicode "Names", "Annotations", and block definitions.

Python wrapper for the OpenType Sanitizer library.

This package provides the autohinter command that can be used to hint PostScript fonts. A Python wrapper is also included.

This package provides the sfd2ufo command, a converter from FontForge’s SFD fonts to UFO fonts.

TECkit is a low-level toolkit intended to be used by other applications that need to perform encoding conversions (e.g., when importing legacy data into a Unicode-based application). The primary component of the TECkit package is therefore a library that performs conversions; this is the "TECkit engine". The engine relies on mapping tables in a specific binary format (for which documentation is available); there is a compiler that creates such tables from a human-readable mapping description (a simple text file).

To facilitate the development and testing of mapping tables for TECkit, several applications are also included in the current package; these include simple tools for applying conversions to plain-text and Standard Format files, as well as both command-line and simple GUI versions of the TECkit compiler. However, it is not intended that these tools will be the primary means by which end users perform conversions, and they have not been designed, tested, and debugged to the extent that general-purpose applications should be.

fcft is a small font loading and glyph rasterization library built on-top of FontConfig, FreeType2 and pixman.

It can load and cache fonts from a fontconfig-formatted name string, e.g. Monospace:size=12, optionally with user configured fallback fonts.

After a font has been loaded, you can rasterize glyphs. When doing so, the primary font is first considered. If it does not have the requested glyph, the user configured fallback fonts (if any) are considered. If none of the user configured fallback fonts has the requested glyph, the FontConfig generated list of fallback fonts are checked.

FontForge allows you to create and modify postscript, truetype and opentype fonts. You can save fonts in many different outline formats, and generate bitmaps.