The indisputable FOSS font editor is FontForge. Realistically this is the only choice one has for making a professional quality typeface with free sof

GitHub - epilys/gerb: Graphical font editor (GTK + Rust)

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The indisputable FOSS font editor is FontForge. Realistically this is the only choice one has for making a professional quality typeface with free software.

To build, you will need Rust's cargo tool. You can get it from your distribution's packages, or directly with the official rustup tool. If the build fails because of missing system libraries, see the Dependencies section of the README.

You can open a UFOv3 project from the GUI ( File->Open or Ctrl+O ) or directly in the command line with the -u flag. Assuming the project directory is "/path/to/font.ufo":

Configuration of various settings is stored at the $XDG_CONFIG_HOME/gerb directory in a TOML file. The usual location would be $HOME/.config/gerb/config.toml. dconf is not used but PRs that add dconf support are welcome.

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