Give your font a name and you’ll see the font editor screen. After that, click on the Create New Fontstruction button. In order to use the service, you have to create an account and login. FontStructįontStruct is probably my favorite online font editor because it has nice interface and the best tools for manipulating the fonts. You can create your fonts right in the browser and download them onto your computer when finished. One of the easiest ways to create new fonts is to use an online font editor. ttf files in a folder: # Move to the fonts folder SF-Fonts-June19/SF-UI/*.otf do fontforge -script otf2ttf.sh $i done Step 3: Install the FontsĪll that’s left is to install all the fonts! To make this easier, let’s put all the. # Worked? Great! Let's convert them all upįor i in. SF-Fonts-June19/SF-UI/SF-UI-Display-Black.otf Sweet, now we can do our conversions! # Test out a single file to make sure it works as expected:įontforge -script otf2ttf.sh. mnt/c/Users/Chuck/Downloads/Assets/Fonts # Lost? Make sure you're in the right directory! Check using pwd pwd Make sure it’s executable over in bash land. # Quick and dirty hack: converts a font to truetype (.ttf)ĭone? Cool. You could call it anything really, but if you’re charting really unfamiliar territory it’s best to leave the names as is: #!/usr/local/bin/fontforge Linux typically mounts those devices on the root system under /mnt, so the path above is saying /folder where Linux mounts hard drive and USB drives/the C drive/usual folders.īack on Windows land, copy paste the script to a new file where you downloaded your fonts and call it otf2ttf.sh.

If you think of your Local C: drive, that’s just a hard drive device on the computer. Since the file systems are quite different on a Windows machine versus a Linux machine, it’ll take a bit of getting used to and wrangling the two worlds to get to where you want to be. # Change directory to where you downloaded the fonts.Ĭd /mnt/c/Users/Chuck/Downloads/Assets/Fonts/ So, let’s install the fontforge cli (command line interface) tool: # Just to make sure we have the latest repo info Windows key + “bash.exe” or within the start menu, find the program “bash.exe”. Open up a bash terminal once you’re ready. I hooked up my system with Ubuntu as I thought most guides online would be in that format.Ģb. Plus, it’s the Swiss Army Knife of computers. If you haven’t used it before and are a bit daunted by using terminals, don’t worry I’ll try to make it as clear as possible :wink. Install the Windows subsystem for Linux on your machine: Ain’t as much fun though, is it? Let’s do the techie thing and convert them ourselves!Ģa.

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