Tipo

A tool to built an OTF file from hand drawn fonts.

Usage

• Print template.pdf (at a 95% scale)
• Draw glyphs by hand on it (with black ink)
• Scan the two pages as PNG or JPG files (in portrait orientation)
• Run the Python script with the two images and a font name as arguments
• You now have a font file with what you drew

Dependencies

• FontForge, pacman -Sy fontforge
• Pillow, pip install pillow
• potracer, pip install potracer
• Python 3

Licence

WTFPL