Font Organizer: Modern Font Management Tool

Font Organizer is a powerful Python-based tool for managing and organizing font collections. It provides intelligent font detection, automated organization, subsetting capabilities, and comprehensive analysis features to help you manage large font libraries efficiently.

🚀 Features

• 🔍 Smart Font Detection: Automatically discover fonts across your system
• 📁 Intelligent Organization: Sort and categorize fonts by various criteria (family, style, weight)
• 🔤 Font Subsetting: Extract specific character sets for optimized web fonts
• 📊 Analysis Tools: Examine font metrics, character coverage, and OpenType features
• 🚀 High Performance: Efficient processing of large font collections with multi-threading support
• 🔄 Duplicate Detection: Find and manage duplicate fonts by hash and metadata
• 📈 Reporting: Generate detailed HTML/PDF reports about your font collection

📦 Installation

Using pip (Recommended)

pip install font-organizer

Using uv (Fast Alternative)

uv pip install font-organizer

From Source

git clone https://github.com/twardoch/font-organizer.git
cd font-organizer
pip install -e .

🎯 Quick Start

Basic Usage

# Scan a directory for fonts
font-organizer scan ~/Fonts

# Organize fonts by family
font-organizer organize ~/Fonts --by family --output ~/OrganizedFonts

# Get information about a specific font
font-organizer info ~/Fonts/Arial.ttf

# Find duplicate fonts
font-organizer duplicates ~/Fonts

# Create a subset with basic Latin characters
font-organizer subset input.ttf output.woff2 --text "ABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZabcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz0123456789"

Command Overview

font-organizer --help

Available commands:

• scan - Scan directories for font files
• organize - Organize fonts using various criteria
• analyze - Analyze font collections and generate reports
• subset - Create font subsets with specific characters
• duplicates - Find and manage duplicate fonts
• info - Display detailed font information
• config - Manage configuration settings

🔧 Configuration

Font Organizer can be configured using a YAML configuration file:

# ~/.font-organizer/config.yaml
organize:
  default_scheme: family  # family, style, weight, or custom
  copy_mode: true  # true for copy, false for move
  
scan:
  include_system_fonts: true
  recursive: true
  font_extensions:
    - .ttf
    - .otf
    - .woff
    - .woff2
    
subset:
  default_format: woff2
  optimize: true

📚 Advanced Usage

Organizing Fonts

# Organize by multiple criteria
font-organizer organize ~/Fonts --by family,weight --output ~/Organized

# Use custom organization rules
font-organizer organize ~/Fonts --rules my-rules.yaml --output ~/Organized

# Dry run to preview organization
font-organizer organize ~/Fonts --dry-run

Font Analysis

# Generate comprehensive analysis report
font-organizer analyze ~/Fonts --output report.html

# Export font list to CSV
font-organizer analyze ~/Fonts --format csv --output fonts.csv

# Check character coverage
font-organizer analyze ~/Fonts --coverage "Latin,Cyrillic"

Subsetting Fonts

# Create subset with Unicode ranges
font-organizer subset input.ttf output.woff2 --unicodes "U+0020-007F,U+00A0-00FF"

# Subset for specific language
font-organizer subset input.ttf output.woff2 --language en,es,fr

# Keep specific OpenType features
font-organizer subset input.ttf output.woff2 --features "kern,liga"

🐍 Python API

from font_organizer import FontOrganizer, FontInfo

# Initialize organizer
organizer = FontOrganizer()

# Scan for fonts
fonts = organizer.scan_directory("~/Fonts")

# Get font information
for font_path in fonts:
    info = FontInfo(font_path)
    print(f"{info.family} - {info.style} ({info.weight})")
    print(f"  Characters: {len(info.characters)}")
    print(f"  Features: {', '.join(info.features)}")

# Organize fonts
organizer.organize(
    source="~/Fonts",
    destination="~/OrganizedFonts",
    scheme="family"
)

# Find duplicates
duplicates = organizer.find_duplicates("~/Fonts")
for group in duplicates:
    print(f"Duplicate group ({len(group)} files):")
    for font in group:
        print(f"  - {font}")

🛠️ Development

Setting up Development Environment

# Clone the repository
git clone https://github.com/twardoch/font-organizer.git
cd font-organizer

# Install development dependencies
pip install -e ".[dev]"

# Install pre-commit hooks
pre-commit install

# Run tests
pytest

# Run linting
ruff check src tests
mypy src tests

Running Tests

# Run all tests
pytest

# Run with coverage
pytest --cov=font_organizer --cov-report=html

# Run specific test file
pytest tests/test_font_info.py

📖 Documentation

Full documentation is available at https://twardoch.github.io/font-organizer/

🤝 Contributing

Contributions are welcome! Please see our Contributing Guide for details.

1. Fork the repository
2. Create your feature branch (git checkout -b feature/amazing-feature)
3. Commit your changes (git commit -m 'Add amazing feature')
4. Push to the branch (git push origin feature/amazing-feature)
5. Open a Pull Request

📄 License

This project is licensed under the MIT License - see the LICENSE file for details.

🙏 Acknowledgments

• Built with fonttools for font manipulation
• Uses rich for beautiful terminal output
• Powered by fire for CLI interface

📬 Contact

Adam Twardoch - @adamtwar - adam+github@twardoch.com

Project Link: https://github.com/twardoch/font-organizer