Re: Announcing TruFont

Daniel Kahn Gillmor <[email protected]> Fri, 27 Nov 2015 13:03:08 -0500
Newsgroups gmane.comp.fonts.fontforge.devel,gmane.comp.fonts.fontforge.user
Message-ID <[email protected]>
On Fri 2015-11-27 00:24:09 -0500, Dave Crossland wrote:

> I thought I'd announce here that Adrien Tétar - one of the most active
> FontForge developers in the last year or so - has started a new and clean
> UFOv3 font editor project that I see as a replacement to FontForge.
>
> There's a longer discussion about the history and context for this here:
>
> http://typedrawers.com/discussion/1165/introducing-trufont-world-s-first-native-ufo3-font-editor-fully-cross-platform
>
> I invite all FontForge users and developers to join the TruFont project and
> help make a transition. However, TruFont is still in an early stage, so for
> type designers dedicated to using libre software, using both editors will
> be needed for a while... :)

I've just filed https://bugs.debian.org/806464 to request a debian
package for trufont.  Sounds like something that should get wider
distribution.

thanks for the work on this!

       --dkg

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