fonts/tools/README.md

Tools

This directory contains miscellaneous tools for working with the Google Fonts collection. Glyph set documentation is in the encoding subdirectory.

Requirements and Dependencies

These tools are intended to work with Python 2.7 systems. While these tools may work with Python 3.x, if so, that's a happy accident. Pull Requests welcome! :)

These tools depend on the submodule GlyphsInfo. Make sure the submodule is up to date by running:

git submodule update --init --recursive

Also compare_font.py and sanity_check.py have additional dependencies that can be installed with pip:

sudo easy_install pip;
pip install --user google-apputils protobuf git+git://github.com/behdad/fonttools.git;

Upstreams:

• https://github.com/schriftgestalt/GlyphsInfo
• https://github.com/google/google-apputils
• https://github.com/google/protobuf
• https://github.com/behdad/fonttools

Sample Usage

Compare fonts:

python compare_font.py font1.ttf font2.ttf;

Add a METADATA.pb to a family directory

python add_font.py ../ofl/newfamily;

Sanity check a family directory:

python sanity_check.py --repair_script=/tmp/fix.py ../ofl/josefinsans;
python sanity_check.py --repair_script=/tmp/fix.py --fix_type=fsSelection ../ufl;

License

The tools and files under this directory are available under the Apache License v2.0, for details see LICENSE.txt