paarandika/trufont

A ufo3 font editor. À l’ancienne.

TruFont

TruFont is a font-editing application written with Python3, ufoLib, defcon and PyQt.

Dependencies:

• Python 3
• PyQt5
• fontTools
• robofab, python3-ufo3 branch
• defcon, python3-ufo3 branch

Optional:

• ufo2fdk, python3-ufo3 branch

Run:

cd Lib && python -m defconQt

Install notes:

• On OSX, it is highly recommended to install all dependencies with Homebrew in order to have a correct Qt namespace (brew handles it all by itself).
  Finish with brew linkapps python3 to be able to call python3 from the Terminal.
• You can have multiple versions of Python on your system, then you just need to use a version prefix, e.g.:
  • python3
  • python3.4
  • python3.5
  • …