It’s a great, easy way to turn your handwriting into a font, but you can use it to create any typeface you can imagine as long as long as you have the adequate drawing skills. I tried it myself and it ...

As of October 2025, Fontforge supports legacy (maybe obsolete) multiple master formats but not yet OpenType variable fonts. This plugin adds frontend of fontmake and fonttools so that variable fonts ...

You wouldn’t steal a car, right? So you shouldn’t pirate a movie, either. That was the gist of the infamous “You Wouldn’t Steal a Car” anti-piracy campaign from the Motion Picture Association of ...

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Designing your own font can be a fun and rewarding hobby, and with the right tools, it’s easier than you might think. This article highlights six programs that allow you to make your own font on a ...

This page gives an overview of how to use the CMake build system (in the context of FontForge), and some notes on transitioning from the old build system. Also note that CMake caches variables between ...