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Create fonts without computers!

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Tipo

A tool to built an OTF file from hand drawn fonts.

Usage

  • Print template.pdf (at a 95% scale)
  • Draw glyphs by hand on it (with black ink)
  • Scan the two pages as PNG or JPG files (in portrait orientation)
  • Run the Python script with the two images and a font name as arguments
  • You now have a font file with what you drew

Dependencies

  • FontForge, pacman -Sy fontforge
  • Pillow, pip install pillow
  • potracer, pip install potracer
  • Python 3

Licence

WTFPL

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