Manuzio font manipulator / News: Recent posts

Manuzio 0.1 has been released. Manuzio is a font manipulation library for (and in) Python. Its purpose is to make font design more efficient, and more fun

So far: it can read and write FontForge's (http://sourceforge.net/projects/fontforge) SFD files[1]; it can read a subset of FontLab's UFO format (and probably gracefully ignore the rest). You can use it for all sorts of plain-jane manipulations like building composite glyphs; and a rather clever interpolation scheme with the some effect as MM fonts, but without as many masters (MM requires 2^n masters for an n-dimensional family; Manuzio only needs n+1).... read more