I am looking for a library that allows me to edit true type fonts.
basically i want to replace certain glyps with my custom vector graphics programmatically/
the language doesnt matter so much, i’m pretty flexible.
thanks!
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I am looking for a library that allows me to edit true type fonts.
basically i want to replace certain glyps with my custom vector graphics programmatically/
the language doesnt matter so much, i’m pretty flexible.
thanks!
If you don’t mind Python, there are a couple of good possibilities
I’d suggest having a look at FontForge. It can be built both to embed a Python interpreter, and to run as a library from within Python. Another nice feature is that its native file format, the spline font database is ascii and fairly well documented and quite easy to manipulate with your own programs.
Another alternative that I have less experience with is TTX and TTLib. The later is a Python library and the former is wrapper around it which roundtrips TTF to XML and back.