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I personally like how the UFO format splits up everything into its own file, it helps with a git workflow. Oh, and I have trust issues with the .glyphs format, UFO is specified and has reliable open source implementations, even though the format has some problems.
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Me an @moyogo work for the same company where we use a variety of font design applications but store the fonts in the UFO v3 plus Designspace format, with a custom build system relying on fontmake and a bunch of other tools to produce final binaries.
I think the format is a good choice in general but must caution that UFO support is sadly often an afterthought in non-RoboFont design applications. If you want to use Glyphs but store things as UFOs, I strongly recommend using glyphsLib's ufo2glyphs
and glyphs2ufo
commands to do the round-tripping work, do not use Glyphs' built-in mechanisms.
I recently converted my Cantarell project from a .glyphs file to UFOs and a Designspace, with custom scripts to make variable and static fonts (as a learning experience): https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/cantarell-fonts. Maybe it can serve as an inspiration.
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Slowly making progress on this. We now include UFOs and Designspace files in our src
folder. These files are generated by fontmake
as part of our new-ish build script. The canonical version (for us) is still Glyphs, but a contributor would be able to use these UFOs in their software of choice, and we'd be able to accept UFOs in new work.
This still needs documentation and testing, but I wanted to check in and assure you all that it's on our radar and is currently a work in progress. Thanks for your help.
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@thisisdano If you want to move the canonical source files to UFO, it's a little bit more in the spirit of the software user freedom movement, but it will complicate your workflow, and since glyphsLib allows anyone without macOS or Glyphsapp to work with the data, it might not be worth it.
Where I think it can pay off is to move the canonical sources to quadratic bezier format UFO and make the build process scripted with fontmake, and then you have better control over making variable fonts, and more point stability for a TTFAutohint Control File to not get stale.
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This was the source I inherited, but I'd be open to switching to Font Forge or something similar
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One can use the Python library glyphsLib’s glyphs2ufo
and ufo2glyphs
tools to roundtrip between Glyphs.app format and designspace+UFOs, and the fontmake
tool can be used to build fonts from either.
UFO is a more widely supported font source format but those tools make the choice a preference.
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It's still in the early stages and probably won't be fully useable until next year, but I am currently contributing to a new open-source, cross-platform font editor project that aims to address these concerns.
My hope is projects like this one that might want a more inclusive community of contributors will consider adopting it when it is ready. Contributions and feedback are welcome.
https://github.com/linebender/runebender
UFO support is in the works, this is the only part of the code I have touched so far, but I would be happy to help anyone else get started if they want to work on UFO support as well.
https://github.com/linebender/norad
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