fontaine 1.0.9

Fontaine font tool

pyfontaine is a python reimplementation of [Fontaine](http://fontaine.sf.net) (by Ed Trager) which analyses fonts for language support. It has a simple character set definition format ([Polish example](https://github.com/davelab6/pyfontaine/blob/master/fontaine/charmaps/polish.py) and autodetects new definition files that appear in the [charmaps](https://github.com/davelab6/pyfontaine/tree/master/fontaine/charmaps) directory.

It has a command line tool. Given a font, it returns the font’s metadata found directly in the font (family name, style name, copyrights, etc) and then infers some useful metadata about its language support (coverage as 4-stars, as percentage, and a list of missing characters needed to get to 100%).

It has a python module. [Example script](https://github.com/xen/fontbakery/blob/master/scripts/famchar.py) from the Font Bakery project.

pyfontaine has been made so far by @hash3g and @davelab6 and @xen, and your contributions are welcome!

Dependencies

• freetype-py

• lxml

• simpleHilbertCurve

• matplotlib

Related:

• libunicodenames

Usage

To output plain text:

pyfontaine font.ttf

To output XML:

pyfontaine –xml font.ttf

To output JSON:

pyfontaine –json font.ttf

To output percent coveraging in CSV:

pyfontaine –csv font.ttf

If you want to see PNG that represent coverage implementation of font charset:

pyfontaine –coverage font.ttf

To specify only set of charmaps:

pyfontaine –set African,’Basic Latin’,’GWF vietnamese’ font.ttf