Greetings. I thought I would toss this out in case anyone was looking for things to package up. Many fonts these days (the google ones at least) are shipping .glyphs files as source. The origin of this format seems to be a non free binary only macos app called "Glyphs". However, there's two open source projects who have added or are working on adding support: https://github.com/trufont/trufont a python based font editor and https://github.com/metapolator/metapolator/ a nodejs based editor Additionally, google has made available 'fontmake' which builds the actual binary fonts from the .glyphs files: https://github.com/googlei18n/fontmake - a python based font compiler. This all came up for me when someone pointed out there was a newer version of a font I maintain ( levien-inconsolata-fonts ) available, but there's no longer a sfd file to build from, just a glyphs source. I don't really have time to package up fontmake (and I think that would be somewhat useless without an editor, so we would need one of the other two also). In the mean time I will probibly just update with the upstream ttf, but that makes me sad. :( So, if anyone wants to take on packaging these up, that would be lovely. I'd be happy to try and help as time permits doing reviews, co- maintaning, etc. Thanks, kevin
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