Microsoft's Documentation

Apple's Documentation

The Compact Font Format Specification

Technical Note #5176.

the-cff-table

Markdown conversion of the Adobe Tech notes 5176 and 5177 about CFF.

Adobe's Documentation

OpenType: let's learn how modern fonts actually work

The OpenType Cookbook

Introduction to OpenType features for type designers. (Source).

A bit of font generation

Brief excursion into OpenType.

Fontraption

A tiny but powerful VGA text mode font editor for DOS.

CGA-font-compare

DOS tool to check if your CGA card uses the same ROM font as the original IBM CGA.

oldschool-pc-fonts

The world's biggest collection of classic text mode fonts, system fonts and BIOS fonts from DOS-era IBM PCs and compatibles - preserving raster typography from pre-GUI times.

x86-Assembly-Font-Renderer

Bootloader that draws characters from a 5x7px font.

atari-font as assemlby source

Atari-Font-To-Code

An over-engineered Linux tool to convert an Atari 8-bit font to BASIC, C, and Assembly source.

Atari-Binary-To-Code

Over-engineered Linux utility to output binary data as text source for Atari 8-bit BASIC, 6502 Assembly, C, or text.

gb-vwf

A very powerful Variable-Width Font engine for the Game Boy & Game Boy Color.

protracker-font

8x8 pixel font reconstructed as TTF from the Protracker v2.3D/v2.3E assembly source.

x86-Assembly-Fonts

Use different bitmap fonts in your Real Mode OS using bitmaps and pixel routines.

xfnt

Fontes gráficas para Hexagon/Hexagon graphic fonts.

cracker

Text, graphics and font ripper for the ZX Spectrum.

persian-assembly-font

Design and implementation of Persian alphabet letters in Assembly.

again

My custom DirectX/Assembly/Raster-font PC Intro engine (2005).

amigafonts

Faithfully remade multi platform Amiga fonts in Amiga aspect.

font-topaz-ng

Amiga's system font, vectorized for modern systems.

Crimson Pro

The Crimson Text typeface.

fontpreview-tui

Minimal command line tool that allows to visualize fonts inside the terminal and copy the selected font to the clipboard.

NerdFetch

A POSIX *nix (Linux, macOS, Android, BSD, etc) fetch script using Nerdfonts (and others).

otfcc

Parses & writes SFNT structures.

AFDKO

Adobe Font Development Kit for OpenType. See AFDKO Overview.

stb_truetype

Parse, decode, and rasterize characters for TrueType fonts. Single header file.

FreeType

Freely available software library to render fonts.

Raqm

Library for complex text layout.

SheenFigure

Implementation of advanced typographic tables of OpenType specification.

SheenBidi

World's most sophisticated implementation of latest unicode bidirectional algorithm.

freetype-gl

OpenGL text using one vertex buffer, one texture and FreeType.

WOFF

Conversion reference code.

QuesoGLC

Free implementation of the OpenGL Character Renderer.

sfntly

A Library for Using, Editing, and Creating SFNT-based Fonts.

Slug

Reference code for the Slug Algorithm.

Sluggish

Toy CPU and GPU implementations of the Slug rendering algorithm.

slughorn

Library for shoehorning the Slug text/graphics GPU rendering library into projects.

osgSlug

Slug support for OpenSceneGraph via SlugHorn

picasso

High quality 2D vector graphic rendering library. It support path , matrix , gradient , pattern , image and truetype font.

fcft

A simple library for font loading and glyph rasterization using FontConfig, FreeType and pixman.

sway

This is a fork of https://github.com/swaywm/sway that replaces pango with https://codeberg.org/dnkl/fcft for font rendering.

ttf

TrueType/OpenType Font Library.

mcufont

A font rendering library for microcontrollers.

hamza

C Unicode/OpenType Library.

libparsesfnt

SFNT parsing library.

libparsepsf

PC Screen Font parsing library.

libparsepcf

Portable Compiled (font) Format parsing library.

libtracebitmap

Bitmap tracing library.

libglitter

Subpixel-rendering library.

libfonts

Library for font listing, searching, and configurations.

RREFont

Fast RRE Font rendering library.

TeensieFont

A tiny font library intended for use on Arduino and other similar platforms.

craftmicro-fonts

Pixel/bitmap font library for Craft Micro SDK.

libint10h_fonts

The int10h.org bitmap font collection as a library of C structs.

ttf2mesh

Standalone library for TrueType font tessellation. Allows to load ttf-file and convert its glyphs to 2D or 3D mesh objects without rasterization.

otf2ttf

Convert an OTF font to TTF.

psftools

A simple textfile based psf font editor suite.

font-config-info

Print Linux font configuration.

font to svg

Render characters from font files into an SVG path.

LCDF Typetools

Utilities for manipulating OpenType, PostScript Type 1, and Multiple Master fonts.

HarfBuzz

OpenType text shaping engine.

FontView

Demo app that displays fonts with a free/libre/open-source text rendering stack: FreeType, HarfBuzz and Raqm.

Text rendering tests

Test suite for text rendering.

FTGLES

TrueType font rendering library for OpenGL ES on iOS devices (iPad and iPhone).

TTFPatch

Mirror of TTFPATCH by Wolfram Esser, modified to support fonts conforming to newer OTF specifications, built for modern versions of Windows.

stb-truetype-opengl-examples

Examples of TrueType font rendering in C++11 using stb_truetype library and OpenGL 3+.

WOFF2

vectorfontstorm

C++ vector font rendering library for OpenGL 3D text rendering, by VoxelStorm Resources.

Slug library

Dynamic GPU Font Rendering and Advanced Text Layout (Minimum $1500 for a license and access to the source code, a demo is available, only for Windows).

trex

Font rendering, atlas generation and text shaping library written in C++.

ascii-art

A C++ library to make everyday alphabets look much better on the terminal , this project uses OOPS concepts to make unique fonts and display letters on command line.

DigiFont

Library for nice, scalable digit rendering using any Arduino GFX libraries.

artery-font-format

Artery Atlas Font format library.

bmfont

Bitmap font generator.

psfmaker

Tool for making Linux console fonts. Output psf files and c header files.

gpu-font-rendering

GPU font rendering from vector outlines demonstration.

font

FreeType/HarfBuzz Node for Elixir.

scalable-font2

Scalable Screen Font 2.0 renderer and file format specification.

NRasterizer

Simple and clean TrueType font renderer written purely in c#.

Typography

C# Font Reader (TrueType / OpenType / OpenFont), Glyphs Layout and Rendering.

SixLabors.Fonts

Font loading and drawing library.

SharpFont

Pure managed TTF / OTF reader and renderer.

font-rs

The fastest font renderer in the world.

font-kit

A cross-platform font loading library.

RustType

Pure Rust alternative to libraries like FreeType.

Pathfinder

Fast, practical GPU rasterizer for OpenType fonts.

Font toolbox

Parser for OpenType fonts

Parser for PostScript fonts

Parser for TrueType fonts

freetype-rs

Rust bindings for FreeType library.

freetype-sys

Low level bindings for the FreeType font library.

truetype

Library for reading fonts from the TrueType format.

font-generator

A genetic algorithm for fonts.

bdfreader

BDF font format reader.

font_awesome_icons

An OCaml library for Font-Awesome SVG icons.

unicopedia-plus

Developer-oriented set of Unicode, Unihan, Unikemet & emoji utilities wrapped into one single app, built with Electron.

OpenType.js

Read and write OpenType fonts.

opentype-layout

Experimental word-wrapping and layout for OpenType.js.

canvas-text-opentypejs-shim

Consistent text rendering for (backed by OpenType.js).

CharacterMap

Online Character Map / Glyph / Icon / Font Viewer.

font

Parse OTF/TTF file format directory from buffers for metadata.

fontkit

Advanced font engine for Node and the browser.

Minimal-font-generator

Font's Hello world.

simple-cff-builder

Simple CFF builder for testing fonts with different Type2 charstrings.

ttf2woff2

Convert TTF files to WOFF2.

ttf2woff

Convert TTF to WOFF, for Node.js.

sfnt2woff

Convert TTF or OTF to WOFF, support Node.js and Browsers.

ttf2eot

Convert TTF to EOT for Node.js.

cubic2quad

Approximates cubic bezier curves with quadratic ones.

SVG font creator

Create SVG font from separate images.

node-sfnt

SFNT parser and generator for Node.js.

node-unicode-data

JavaScript-compatible Unicode data generator.

fontwr

Font manager for web projects.

Open Type playground

Playground for Open Type experiments with CSS.

ChromaCheck

Feature test for color font support in browsers.

Font Face Observer

Font load events, simple, small and efficient fontfaceobserver.com.

Web Font Loader

Gives you added control when using linked fonts via @font-face.

localFont

Implement localStorage web font caching in seconds.

Fontello

This tool lets you combine icon webfonts for your own project.

GitHub Font Preview

Adds a preview for fonts & glyphs on GitHub with OpenType.js.

unidata

Unicode Character Database for JavaScript.

UCD

Unicode Character Database for JavaScript.

Character Set Inspector

Unicode Character Database for JavaScript.

OpenType

Font parser in JavaScript.

opentype-geometry

Convert Text from OpenType font to three.js 3D.

Plumin.js

Create and manipulate fonts in the browser.

Typr.js

Process fonts in JavaScript.

fonteditor-core

Read, write, transform fonts in JavaScript.

fontmin

Minify font seamlessly.

fontfacegen

Browser font-face generator for creating browser usable fonts from TTF's or OTF's.

NType

4D Type Extruder.

node-emoji

😏 simple emoji support for Node.js projects.

custom-fonts-in-emails

Extremely easy way to use custom fonts in emails without having to use art software.

Google Fonts Infos

Extract info out of the Google Fonts archive.

Hyphenopoly.js

JavaScript polyfill for client-side hyphenation.

Hyphenator.js

JavaScript that implements client-side hyphenation of HTML-Documents.

Hypher

Fast and small JavaScript hyphenation engine.

Typeset.js

HTML pre-processor for web typography (hanging punctuation, soft hyphen insertion, optical margin outdents, small-caps conversion and punctuation substitution).

Typeset

TeX line breaking algorithm in JavaScript.

otfcc-cubic2quad

Losslessly turn CFF OTF to TTF using otfcc.

caryll / shapeops

Boolean operations and overlap removal for curves.

OpenType-SVG Workshop

Web application.

A-binary-parser-generator

This project aims to create a tool that can turn a spec file into a parser skeleton for binary data files such as OpenType fonts, PNG images, etc.

font-spider

Smart webfont compression and format conversion tool.

Brotli.js

A JavaScript port of the Brotli compression algorithm, as used in WOFF2.

ideohint

Optimized hinter for Ideographs.

subfont

Command line tool to inject Google font subsets used glyphs into your page.

webfont

Awesome generator of webfont, WOFF2, WOFF, EOT, TTF and SVG.

grapheme-splitter

JavaScipt library that breaks strings into their individual user-perceived characters.

unicode-properties

Provides fast access to unicode character properties.

unicode-tr51-emoji

Emoji data extracted from Unicode Technical Report #51 v1.0 – v5.0.

fontblast

Give me an icon-font, and I'll create individual SVG/PNG files for all icons in it.

fontplop

Fast, Simple, & Free Open Source Webfont Converter.

svgfont2svgicons

Extract SVG icons from an SVG font.

glyphhanger

Your web font utility belt. It shows what unicode-ranges are used on a web site (optionally for a font-family or for each font-family). It can also subset web fonts.

Punycode.js

Robust Punycode converter that fully complies to RFC 3492 and RFC 5891.

code-point-at

ES2015 String#codePointAt() ponyfill.

Typefont

First open-source library that detects the font of a text in a image.

node-fonttools

Native bindings to fonttools to decompile and compile fonts.

font-toolkit

Font file manipulating in TypeScript.

variableFont.js

Handles variable fonts through OpenType.js.

bdfparser-js

BDF (Glyph Bitmap Distribution) format bitmap font file parser library in TypeScript (JavaScript).

fontTools

Library for manipulating fonts, written in Python.

fontmake

Compile fonts from sources (UFO, Glyphs) to binary (OpenType, TrueType).

FontReport

Tool to create PDF files containing glyph images and information about a font.

fontdiff

Tool for finding visual differences between two font versions.

kern-dump

Scripts for working with and analyzing kerning information (ATypI 2013).

cu2qu

Cubic-to-quadratic bezier curve conversion.

Font Bakery

Tools to prepare font families for inclusion in github.com/google/fonts.

glyphNameFormatter

Generate list of glyphnames from unicode names.

woffTools

Library for working with WOFF files.

pyftfeatfreeze

With pyftfeatfreeze, you can “freeze” some OpenType features into a font.

RoboFab

Library with objects that deal with data usually associated with fonts and type design.

pyfontaine

Python tool to check font files for language/character set support.

Glyph Nanny

Live report about potential drawing issues in your glyph.

Kernagic

Semi-automatic font spacing tool.

Huerta Tipográfica Letterspacer

HT Letterspacer is a tool for spacing fonts.

OpenType-SVG Tools

Tools and sample files for making OpenType-SVG fonts.

boxDrawing.py

Python script to draw all the box drawing characters and block elements based on parameters.

scfbuild

Create OpenType-SVG color fonts from a set of SVG source files.

color-emoji

Tool to build color fonts using Google color-font format (CBDT/CBLC).

monospacifier.py

Convert variable-pitch fonts to monospace (useful for unicode and indentation-friendly programming).

edf825/SVG-OpenType-Utils

SVG in OpenType Utils (!Old: 2013).

Icon Font to PNG

Python script (and library) for exporting icons from icon fonts (e.g. Font Awesome, Octicons) as PNG images.

Compositor

Basic OpenType GSUB and GPOS layout engine.

UFO Extractor

Tools for extracting data from font binaries into UFO objects.

Noto Tools

Noto fonts support tools and scripts.

compreffor

CFF table subroutinizer for FontTools.

font-line

OpenType vertical metrics reporting and font line spacing adjustment tool.

Flat

Library for creating and manipulating digital forms of fine arts.

PageBot

Scripted page layout program, as application inside Drawbot generating high quality typographic documents that support high quality fonts.

bdfparser

BDF (Glyph Bitmap Distribution) format bitmap font file parser library in Python.

sfntly

Library for Using, Editing, and Creating SFNT-based Fonts.

Emoji-Tools

Multiple useful tools to help Android and iOS/macOS developers with creating and modifying Emoji Font files.

Tehreer-Android

Library that gives full control over text related technologies such as bidirectional algorithm, open type shaping engine, text typesetting and text rendering.

emoji-extractor

Extracts high-resolution emoji pngs from Apple Color Emoji.ttf.

font

Command-line font manager.

font

Parsing OpenType fonts in Golang.

freetype

Font rasterizer in Go.

checkfont

Checks which system fonts contain the desired characters.

PHP Font Lib

Library to read, parse, export and make subsets of different types of font files.

JoliTypo

Microtypography fixer for the web.

PHP SmartyPants

SmartyPants is a free web typography prettifyier tool for web writers. It easily translates plain ASCII punctuation characters into "smart" typographic punctuation HTML entities.

Font::TTFMetrics

Fast & easy-to-use parser for true-type font (TTF) file.

Fontastic

Processing library to create TrueType font files.

opentype.clj

A simple API over OpenType.js for Clojure. Runs on the JVM.

unifiedfontobject.org

ufo-spec

The official Unified Font Object specification source files.

ufoLib

Low-level UFO reader and writer.

ufoNormalizer

Tool that will normalize the XML and other data inside of a UFO.

ufo2ft

UFO to FontTools.

ufoJS

JavaScript API for the Unified Font Object.

Fontself

Adobe Illustrator & Photoshop extensions for creating vector and bitmap fonts by Drag&Drop. Make fonts the easy way!

Robofont

UFO based (Mac only).

Glyphs

Font editor (Mac only).

Prototypo

Web based font generator with a parametric approach.

FontLab Studio

Font editor for font professionals. Version 5 for Mac and Windows.

DTL OTMaster

Highly sophisticated application for reviewing, editing and altering tables and contours of fonts with a snft file structure, as there are CFF and TTF flavored OpenType fonts, TrueType fonts and TrueType Collection fonts.

010 Editor

Professional text and hex editing with Binary Templates technology. OpenType template.

Synalyze It!

Reverse Engineering and Binary File Analysis made easy. OpenType template.

TransType 4

Universal font converter.

FontForge

Free (libre) font editor for Windows, macOS and GNU+Linux.

TruFont

UFO3 font editor. À l’ancienne.

Metapolator

Web-based GUI for creating UFO and Metafont fonts.

Birdfont

Font editor which can generate fonts in TTF, EOT, SVG and BF format.

Glyphr Studio

Free, web-based font editor, focusing on font design hobbyists.

DTL OTMaster

Highly sophisticated application for reviewing, editing and altering tables and contours of fonts with a snft file structure, as there are CFF and TTF flavored OpenType fonts, TrueType fonts and TrueType Collection fonts.

fonteditor

Web-based TTF font editor, live at fontstore.baidu.com.

FontArk

Innovative browser-based font editor and creator (BETA), featuring the most versatile real-time multiple glyph editing system.

TTFEdit

TrueType fonts editor. Allows for editing vector-based glyphs.

OpenType-SVG-Font-Editor

OpenType-SVG font editor.

SdfFontDesigner

A generator of bitmap font, based on ttf & otf, rendered with custom shaders in glsl.

FontFreeze

Web-based tool for freezing variations and features in font.

Font Validator

Tool for testing fonts prior to release. See Install post for Mac.

OpenType Sanitiser

The OpenType Sanitiser (OTS) parses and serialises OpenType files (OTF, TTF) and WOFF and WOFF2 font files, validating them and sanitising them as it goes.

WOFF Validator

Online WOFF Validator.

Axis-Praxis

Website for playing with OpenType variable fonts in modern browsers.

Bulletproof Font Tester

Test your local or remote fonts with the proofing tool developed by a type designer, for type designers. Check out kerning, OpenType features, and language coverage. Explore and animate variation axes in variable fonts.

Cyreal.org Font Testing Page

The Font Testing Page is a tool primarily intended for type designers to 'Drag and Drop' and quickly test their fonts into a browser (active fork of Impallari's testing page).

Font Gauntlet

The Dinamo Font Gauntlet is a tool for proofing, generating and animating fonts.

Wakamai Fondue

The tool that answers the question “what can my font do?”

TypeNetwork TypeTools

Layout tools for exerimenting with variable fonts in various ways.

TypeDrawers

Discussion forum for professionals and enthusiasts in the fields of typeface design, lettering, and typography.

Font Squirrel Webfont Generator

Upload OTF or TTF fonts, receive webfonts.

The State of Web Type

"Can I Use" for typography.

UseModify

Open Source typefaces.

ofont

Web interface for font collections (used by usemodify.com)

Git for Type Designers

designwithfontforge.com

Book about how to design new typefaces with FontForge. See designwithfontforge.com.

FontTesting Page

Webpage for testing typefaces.

CSS Utility OpenType

Simple, CSS utility classes for advanced typographic features. See it here.

Alfred Special Characters

Typefacts Special Characters Workflow for Alfred 3.

Typomanie.fr Ressources

Drawing good paths Tutorial

Badly drawn outlines can cause headache. Your letters may look mangled or not appear at all. You can avoid these difficulties if you keep a few basic rules in mind.

Deep Into OpenType Features

What are OpenType features?

The A-Z of typographic terms

Typography terms in images.

Emoj

Find relevant emoji from text on the command-line 😮 ✨ 🙌 🐴 💥 🙈.

Emoji Wrap Monthly Newsletter

Bite-sized summary of what's happening in the world of emoji and Unicode.

Crypto Puzzles

Functions for encryption and stegonagraphy as puzzles or brain teasers. Online demo.

FDBP

Font Development Best Practice documentation.

UnicodeChecker

Explore and convert Unicode.

unicodes

Browse all of the unicodes.

Method of Action

Collection of tools, games and articles to help you learn design.

Encodings and character sets for Programmers

What every programmer absolutely, positively needs to know about encodings and character sets to work with text.

Kernall

Kerning and letterspacing research.

Type Facet

Collection of Python scripts for working with fonts. See TypeFacet Autokern

OpenType feature reference

Documentation and other info about advanced font features.

Typography Supply

An inventory of typographic tools.

OpenType Feature Bundle

Syntax highlighting and snippets for OpenType feature development in TextMate/Sublime Text.

Type Tools dotfiles

Setup for type tools.

AGL & AGLFN

AGL / AGLFN (Adobe Glyph List / For New Fonts) simply provides mappings from glyph names to Unicode scalar values. See specification.

The Terrible Secret of OpenType Glyph Substitution

I Can Variable Font

Tips for making variable fonts.

You, Me And The Emoji: Character Sets, Encoding And Emoji

Emoji Rolodex

Resourceful links to emoji-related sites, plug-ins, and apps.

OpenType_Table_Source

Documentation for Monotype's OpenType Layout Source File Format.

jenskutilek/TypoLabs2016

Code examples from Jens Kutilek's TypoLabs workshop.

W3C - Fonts on the Web

Fonts on the Web.

W3C - WebFonts Working Group

Twitter Emoji (Twemoji)

The Twemoji library offers support for +2k emojis, including skin tone and gender modifiers.

EmojiOne

EmojiOne™ is the open emoji standard.

No @font-face Syntax will ever be Bulletproof, Nor Should It Be

Typography is impossible

The practical guide to why laying out type never quite does what you want.

JavaScript has a Unicode problem

The way JavaScript handles Unicode is… surprising, to say the least.

homebrew-webfonttools

Homebrew formulae for font tools.

Font Falsehoods

Falsehoods programmers believe about fonts.

Letterpress Digest

The new podcast about letterpress.

fontspeed

Newsletter on font loading by @zachleat.

Font-Awesome-SVG-PNG

Font Awesome split to individual SVG and PNG files of different sizes along with Node.js based generator.

Calligraphr

Convert your handwriting to a font file.

Coding Font

Gamified experience to help you find your ideal coding font through a playful comparison tool.

The Gilbert Font

OpenType-SVG font named after Gilbert Baker, the creator of the rainbow flag.

Nanofont

Nano font for testing font format support (TrueType, WOFF, WOFF2).

FiraSystemFontReplacement

Modified version of the Fira Sans fonts to replace the default system font on macOS 10.10 and 10.11.

SansBullshitSans Font

Every buzzword will be replaced by a Comic Sans-styled censorship bar.

Blackout

One font to blackout them all.

Compyx

8-bit Multicolor OpenType font.

LapisLegit

OpenType-SVG testfont.

AIFont

The fist Chinese font that generated artificial intelligent.

Noto Fonts

Noto’s goal is to provide a beautiful reading experience for all languages.

Noto Emoji

Color and Black-and-White Noto emoji fonts, and tools for working with them.

EmojiOne COLR/CPAL

EmojiOne font in COLR/CPAL layered format.

EmojiOne OpenType-SVG

Color emoji OpenType-SVG font using EmojiOne Unicode 9.0 emoji with diversity and country flags.

Twitter Color Emoji Font

Color emoji OpenType-SVG font using Twitter Unicode 9.0 emoji with diversity and country flags.

Bixa Color

Building Bixa Color, a color font for the web pixelambacht.nl/2016/building-bixa-color/.

fontwr-fonts

Fonts repository for fontwr.

Bungee

Chromatic signage typeface for vertical and horizontal setting.

Aerial Bold

First map and typeface of the earth.

wavefont

Typeface for rendering data: waveforms, spectrums, diagrams, bars etc.

Adobe Variable Font Prototype

Variable font example in OpenType-CFF2 & TrueType formats.

Microsoft open source fonts

Central location to share Microsoft's open source fonts.

Reinebow

OpenType-SVG color font.

Freizer

OpenType-SVG color font.

Multicoloure

OpenType-SVG color font based on Multicolore Vector Typeface.

null-ttf

This font is null. It's the smallest possible TrueType binary still valid on macOS and with most of its bytes wiped out.

Monotype Variable Font Demo

CFF opcode test fonts

OTF fonts for testing CFF opcode support.

TestFont

Font family for testing OpenType implementations.

BuffaloGals

Buffalo Gals is one of the very first “Variable Fonts”, originally made in 1992 for an Apple TrueType GX developer CD.

Adobe Fonts / Source Emoji

Source Emoji is an emoji font project that began development in order to provide monochrome representative glyphs to the Unicode Consortium for emoji candidates that have been accepted by the UTC (Unicode Technical Committee) but have not yet been fully ratified to become a part of the official…

Hasklig

Code font with monospaced ligatures.

Firefox OS Emojis

Emoji set from Mozilla available as SVGs and TTF font.

Iosevka

Slender typeface for code, from code.

Raleway

Elegant sans-serif, designed in a single thin weight.

Adobe NotDef

Maps 1,111,998 Unicode code points to 2,048 .notdef glyphs.

Adobe Blank

Maps 1,111,998 Unicode code points to 2,048 non-spacing and non-marking glyphs.

Adobe Blank 2

Based on Adobe Blank, and differs mainly in that the number of glyphs has been reduced to only two, thanks to the Format 13 'cmap' subtable.

Width Test

For testing width-related GSUB features, specifically 'fwid' (Full Widths), 'hwid' (Half Widths), 'twid' (Third Widths), and 'qwid' (Quarter Widths).

Source Han Sans

Set of OpenType/CFF Pan-CJK fonts.

Source Han Serif

Set of OpenType/CFF Pan-CJK fonts.

Open Emoji

Will provide open and free access to visual communications technology, namely emoji, for the entire universe.

Overpass

Open source font family inspired by Highway Gothic.

Truetype font software

List (Big!) with descriptions here.

Fonts & Encodings

From Advanced Typography to Unicode and Everything in Between Google Books Preview.

Unicode Explained

There are hundreds of different encoding systems for mapping characters to numbers, but Unicode promises a single mapping. Google Books Preview.

Talks from TYPO conferences

Tales of ⌧! Can You Tell Your Story When Your Character Is Undefined?! by Persa Zula