Is there any good font editor?

Question

There is any good font editor for ubuntu? Like high-logic Font editor for win. I tried Doubletype, but not worked very well, and really outdated.

Solution 1

You can try fontforge. It is available in the standard repository. Though the GUI is somewhat messy, but it's powerful and I've used it to change names of fonts.

Click the button to install:

Or with this command:

sudo apt-get install fontforge

There is another front-end to fontforge. it is mensis. Install it with

sudo apt-get install mensis

Or using this link:

If apt-get says, no such packages, use this command to refresh package database

sudo apt-get update

See this excellent FAQ in the fontforge site at sourceforge.net . And If you like reading good writings and have time to read the history of fontforge, I recommend you to read this excellent article too!

Solution 2

See also BirdFont. It is available in the Universe repository since Ubuntu 14.10 (Utopic Unicorn).

Install with this command :

sudo apt-get install birdfont

Newer versions can be installed from an upstream PPA :

sudo add-apt-repository ppa:birdfont-team/birdfont
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install birdfont

Comments

[Daniel Chatfield]

Fontforge can do the job, but not user friendly, with better ui it can be a score! Thx for the answer, it was helpfull.

[Anwar]

@c001os See the Faq link in my answer. I think, your query about better ui has an answer there already. Thanks. :)

[Daniel Chatfield]

Thy, but i can hardly say mensis is super user friendly :). But thx.

[xealits]

just tried installing birdfont on Ubuntu 14.04, got error on launching: birdfont: error while loading shared libraries: libxmlbird.so.1.0: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory

[Skippy le Grand Gourou]

@xealits Did you try to install libxmlbird ?

[xealits]

yes, I get E: Unable to locate package libxmlbird, the ppa is added and I ran sudo apt-get update. Maybe it's not available for trusty?

[Skippy le Grand Gourou]

I checked and the package is actually named libxmlbird1. However it seems available only since 16.04, so you'll have to find a way to install libxmlbird manually.

[Skippy le Grand Gourou]

Maybe try to install manually this deb (if amd64) or this deb (if i386). I'm not sure how to install them directly from the PPA, but once downloaded you can install them with sudo dpkg -i /path/to/package.deb. I'm afraid I cannot help you further.