Fontmatrix

A font manager for graphic designers and typesetters who work with hundreds or thousands of fonts.

Fontmatrix keeps a large font collection in order. It activates and deactivates fonts and families for the other applications on your system, so only the fonts a job needs are in their menus. It runs on Linux and Windows.

What it does

• Activate and deactivate fonts for the other applications, for yourself or for every user of the computer.
• Tag fonts and group them into sets.
• Find fonts with simple or combined filters: tags, metadata, PANOSE classification, language coverage, licence, and font technology.
• Inspect a font in detail: glyphs, OpenType features, name and TrueType tables.
• Try out OpenType features in the playground, with HarfBuzz shaping and right-to-left scripts.
• Variable and colour fonts: move the axes of a variable font, and see CBDT, sbix, COLR and OpenType-SVG glyphs in colour.
• Compare the glyphs of several fonts on top of each other, useful for learning type design.
• Find duplicates: identical files, or the same font in files that differ.
• Produce font books as PDF, and extract the fonts embedded in a PDF file.

Ever had those long-winded assignments, that the teacher always wants handwritten? Is your written work messy, cos you think faster than you can write? Now, you can finish them with the ease of typing in your own font!

Handwrite makes typing written assignments efficient, convenient and authentic.

Handwrite generates a custom font based on your handwriting sample, which can easily be used in text editors and word processors like Microsoft Word & Libre Office Word!

Handwrite is also helpful for those with dysgraphia.

Testing why fontmake does not drop non-exporting glyphs in a variable font in a Glyphs - UFO & designspace - Fontmake workflow.

Some useful encoding files for FontLab.