diff --git a/build.py b/build.py
index ba2679d..5c3e68d 100644
--- a/build.py
+++ b/build.py
@@ -1,55 +1,22 @@
 from pathlib import Path
-from cozette_builder.imagegen import save_sample, save_charlist, Sample
+from cozette_builder.imagegen import save_sample, save_charlist, read_sample
+from cozette_builder.ttfbuilder import TTFBuilder
 
-SAMPLE_TEXT = """
-$BLUE$┏━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━┓
-┃ $MAGENTA$♡$NC$        $FG$Cozette$NC$        $MAGENTA$♡$BLUE$ ┃
-┡━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━┩
-│ $WHITE$A B C D E F G H I J K L M $BLUE$│
-│ $WHITE$N O P Q R S T U V W X Y Z $BLUE$│
-╞═══════════════════════════╡
-│    1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 0    │
-╞═══════════════════════════╡
-│ $WHITE$a b c d e f g h i j k l m $BLUE$│
-│ $WHITE$n o p q r s t u v w x y z $BLUE$│
-├┄┄┄┄┄┄┄┄┄┄┄┄┄┄┄┄┄┄┄┄┄┄┄┄┄┄┄┤
-│ $RED$() [] {} <> ? / \ : " ' ;$BLUE$ │
-│ $RED$! @ # $ % ^ & * _ = + - |$BLUE$ │
-│          , . ` ~$BLUE$          │
-╰───────────────────────────╯
- $YELLOW$  
-  
-   $BLUE$│  $FG$╔═══════════════╗
-   $BLUE$└──$FG$║ $GREEN$✓ ✔ $YELLOW$✕ ✖ $MAGENTA$✗ ✘ $FG$ ║$BLUE$▒
-      $FG$║ $BLUE$       $FG$║$BLUE$▒
-      $FG$╚═══════════════╝$BLUE$▒
-       ▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒
-
-
-  $GREEN$Pchnąć w tę łódź jeża lub
-      ósm skrzyń fig.
-
-     Eĥoŝanĝo ĉiuĵaŭde.
-
-    Příliš žluťoučký kůň
-     úpěl ďábelské ódy.
-
-          $FG$♠ ♣ $MAGENTA$♥ ♦
-"""
 REPO_ROOT = Path(__file__).resolve().parent
-
+bdfpath = REPO_ROOT / "Cozette8" / "Cozette-10.bdf"
 
 def save_images():
-    bdfpath = REPO_ROOT / "Cozette8" / "Cozette-10.bdf"
 
     save_charlist(bdfpath, REPO_ROOT / "img" / "characters.png")
 
     save_sample(
         "Clozette",
-        Sample(SAMPLE_TEXT, 30, 32),
+        read_sample(REPO_ROOT / "img" / "sample.txt"),
         REPO_ROOT / "img" / "sample.png",
     )
 
 
 if __name__ == "__main__":
-    save_images()
+    # save_images()
+    TTFBuilder.from_bdf_path(bdfpath).build("cloze.ttf")
+
diff --git a/cozette_builder/bdf/__init__.py b/cozette_builder/bdf/__init__.py
deleted file mode 100644
index e69de29..0000000
diff --git a/cozette_builder/bdf/bdffont.py b/cozette_builder/bdffont.py
similarity index 63%
rename from cozette_builder/bdf/bdffont.py
rename to cozette_builder/bdffont.py
index 853bf38..c5afa44 100644
--- a/cozette_builder/bdf/bdffont.py
+++ b/cozette_builder/bdffont.py
@@ -9,7 +9,8 @@ from typing import (
     TextIO,
     Tuple,
 )
-import numpy as np
+import numpy as np  # type: ignore
+from fontTools.pens.ttGlyphPen import TTGlyphPen
 
 Bit = Union[Literal[1], Literal[0]]
 
@@ -29,7 +30,7 @@ class BdfGlyph:
         self.bits: np.array = np.pad(bits, [[0, 0], [bbx.x, 0]])[
             bbx.y : bbx.y + bbx.h, bbx.x : bbx.x + bbx.w
         ]
-        self.meta = meta
+        self.metadata = meta
 
     @classmethod
     def from_str(cls, s: str, meta: Dict[str, str]) -> BdfGlyph:
@@ -51,8 +52,24 @@ class BdfGlyph:
             "".join("#" if ch else " " for ch in line) for line in self.bits
         )
 
+    def draw(self, ppp: float):
+        pen = TTGlyphPen(None)
+        for y, row in reversed(enumerate(self.bits)):
+            for x, col in enumerate(row):
+                if col:
+                    pen.moveTo((x * ppp, y * ppp))
+                    pen.lineTo(((x + 1) * ppp, y * ppp))
+                    pen.lineTo(((x + 1) * ppp, (y + 1) * ppp))
+                    pen.lineTo((x * ppp, (y + 1) * ppp))
+                    pen.lineTo((x * ppp, y * ppp))
+                    pen.closePath()
+        return pen.glyph()
 
-def parse_char(bdfstream: TextIO):
+    def meta(self, k) -> List[str]:
+        return self.metadata[k].strip().strip('"').strip().split()
+
+
+def parse_char(bdfstream: TextIO) -> Tuple[Dict[str, str], List[int]]:
     specs = {}
     while not (line := bdfstream.readline()).startswith("BITMAP"):
         parts = line.split(maxsplit=1)
@@ -64,15 +81,19 @@ def parse_char(bdfstream: TextIO):
 
 
 class BdfFont:
-    def __init__(self, metadata: List[str], glyphs: Dict[int, BdfGlyph]):
-        self.metadata: List[str] = metadata
+    def __init__(self, metadata: Dict[str, str], glyphs: Dict[int, BdfGlyph]):
+        self.metadata: Dict[str, str] = metadata
         self.glyphs: Dict[int, BdfGlyph] = glyphs
 
     @classmethod
     def from_bdf(cls, bdfstream: TextIO):
-        metadata = []
+        metadata = {}
         while not (line := bdfstream.readline()).startswith("CHARS "):
-            metadata.append(line)
+            try:
+                meta, val = line.split(maxsplit=1)
+                metadata[meta] = val
+            except ValueError:
+                pass
         glyphs = {}
         for i in range(int(line.split()[1])):
             meta, char = parse_char(bdfstream)
@@ -86,3 +107,6 @@ class BdfFont:
     @property
     def str_codepoints(self) -> Tuple[str, ...]:
         return tuple(f"U+{i:X}" for i in self.glyphs)
+
+    def meta(self, k) -> List[str]:
+        return self.metadata[k].strip().strip('"').strip().split()
diff --git a/cozette_builder/imagegen.py b/cozette_builder/imagegen.py
index d85563c..3447f88 100644
--- a/cozette_builder/imagegen.py
+++ b/cozette_builder/imagegen.py
@@ -3,7 +3,7 @@ from typing import Tuple, Dict, Optional, NamedTuple
 from shlex import quote
 from pathlib import Path
 from unicodedata import east_asian_width as charwidth
-from cozette_builder.bdf.bdffont import BdfFont
+from cozette_builder.bdffont import BdfFont
 import platform
 import tempfile
 
diff --git a/cozette_builder/ttfbuilder.py b/cozette_builder/ttfbuilder.py
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..5f24c40
--- /dev/null
+++ b/cozette_builder/ttfbuilder.py
@@ -0,0 +1,69 @@
+from pathlib import Path
+from fontTools.fontBuilder import FontBuilder
+from fontTools.pens.ttGlyphPen import TTGlyphPen
+from cozette_builder.bdffont import BdfFont, BdfGlyph
+
+class TTFBuilder:
+    @classmethod
+    def from_bdf_path(cls, path: Path):
+        with path.open() as f:
+            bdf = BdfFont.from_bdf(f)
+        return cls(bdf)
+
+    def __init__(self, bdf: BdfFont):
+        self.bdf = bdf
+        upm = 1000
+        self.fb = FontBuilder(unitsPerEm=upm)
+        self.ppp = upm / int(self.bdf.meta("SIZE")[0])
+        w, h, startx, starty = self.bdf.meta("FONTBOUNDINGBOX")
+        self.ascent = int(self.bdf.meta("FONT_ASCENT")[0])
+        self.descent = int(self.bdf.meta("FONT_DESCENT")[0])
+        self.w = int(w)
+        self.h = int(h)
+        self.startx = int(startx)
+        self.starty = int(starty)
+
+    def build(self, output_path: Path):
+        glyph_names = {
+            k: glyph.meta("STARTCHAR")[0] for k, glyph in
+            self.bdf.glyphs.items()
+        }
+        ascent = round(self.ascent * self.ppp)
+        descent = round(self.descent * self.ppp)
+
+        self.fb.setupGlyphOrder(list(glyph_names.values()))
+        self.fb.setupCharacterMap(glyph_names)
+        advance_widths = {
+            name: 700 for name in glyph_names.values()
+        }
+        # copied from fontbuilder for now
+        familyName = "HelloTestFont"
+        styleName = "TotallyNormal"
+        version = "0.1"
+
+        nameStrings = dict(
+            familyName=dict(en=familyName, nl="HalloTestFont"),
+            styleName=dict(en=styleName, nl="TotaalNormaal"),
+            uniqueFontIdentifier="fontBuilder: " + familyName + "." + styleName,
+            fullName=familyName + "-" + styleName,
+            psName=familyName + "-" + styleName,
+            version="Version " + version,
+        )
+        self.fb.setupGlyf(
+            {name: self.bdf.glyphs[k].draw(self.ppp) for k, name in
+             glyph_names.items()}
+        )
+        metrics = {}
+        glyphTable = self.fb.font["glyf"]
+        for name in glyph_names.values():
+            metrics[name] = (700, glyphTable[name].xMin)
+        self.fb.setupHorizontalMetrics(metrics)
+        self.fb.setupHorizontalHeader(ascent=ascent, descent=-descent)
+        self.fb.setupNameTable(nameStrings)
+        self.fb.setupOS2(sTypoAscender=ascent, usWinAscent=ascent,
+                    usWinDescent=descent)
+        self.fb.setupPost()
+        self.fb.save(str(output_path))
+
+
+
diff --git a/img/sample.txt b/img/sample.txt
index 10bcb9e..485f32b 100644
--- a/img/sample.txt
+++ b/img/sample.txt
@@ -31,4 +31,4 @@ $BLUE$┏━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━
     Příliš žluťoučký kůň
      úpěl ďábelské ódy.
 
-          $FG$♠ ♣ $MAGENTA$♥ ♦
+           $FG$♠ $MAGENTA$♥ $FG$♣ $MAGENTA$♦