babelfont 2.0.2

Abstract interface to font source files based on fontParts

babelfont

Read font files into fontParts objects and write them out again.

Usage

Here’s how to convert a font from one format to another (from the command line):

babelfont My-Font.glyphs My-Font.ufo

Here’s how to convert a font from one format to another (from a Python script):

from babelfont import Babelfont

font = Babelfont.open("My-Font.glyphs")
font.save("My-Font.ufo")

To interact with the font object, see the fontParts documentation.

Currently Babelfont supports:

• UFO (Read and write)

• Glyphs (Read and write)

• OTF (Read only)

• TTF (Read only)

• Fontlab VFJ (Read only)

• Free software: Apache Software License 2.0

History

2.0.2 (2020-02-08)

• Fix source distribution, move to setuptools_scm

2.0.1 (2020-02-04)

• Add the concept of an exported/unexported glyph

• Revert “Ignore unexported glyphs”

• Ignore missing date

• Ignore unexported glyphs

• Fix VFJ test

2.0.0 (2020-01-25)

• Rewrite to load in font data directly instead of proxying. New interface.

• Fix anchors, color loading

• Add variable font abstraction layer