# fontforge/designwithfontforge.com

A book about how to design new typefaces with FontForge

Repository: https://github.com/fontforge/designwithfontforge.com
Canonical: https://ross.abutalabs.com/products/designwithfontforgecom
Homepage: http://designwithfontforge.com
Language: HTML
License Family: other
Topics: book, fonts, how-to
Last push: 2026-07-16T20:17:55+00:00

## Health v2 (maintenance only)
Score: 74/100 (v2, computed 2026-09-03T02:20:16.233290+00:00)
- activity 92, release rhythm 35, longevity 100
- inputs: {"age_days": 4976, "days_push": 48, "days_rel": null, "gap_med": null, "n_releases_24m": 0}
- flags: no_releases, no_license
- formula: round(0.45*activity + 0.35*rhythm + 0.20*longevity); archived -> min(score, 10)

## Adoption (not part of the score)
Stars 1041, forks 182 (observed 2026-08-28T04:03:20.565464+00:00)

## What it is
An open-source book (hosted as a Jekyll site on GitHub Pages) teaching how to design new typefaces with the FontForge font editor. It covers the full type design workflow from drawing glyphs to spacing, kerning, validation, and generating font files, and is available in multiple languages and as EPUB, MOBI, and PDF.

## Use cases
- learn how to design a typeface with FontForge
- tutorial for creating my first font
- guide to drawing glyphs and letterforms
- how to do kerning and spacing in a font
- how to generate font files from FontForge
- learn to add diacritics and accents to a typeface
- designing Devanagari or Arabic typefaces

## When to choose
- you want a free, comprehensive introduction to type design using FontForge
- you are a beginner learning font creation step by step
- you need multilingual or downloadable (EPUB/PDF) book formats

## When to avoid
- you use commercial font editors like Glyphs or RoboFont and want tool-specific guidance
- you need interactive video courses rather than a written book
- you need FontForge software support rather than type design education

## Facets
- artifact type: learning-resource
- maturity: maintenance
- function: documentation, markdown
- domain: education, graphics, documentation
- platform: cross-platform
- tags: book, typography, typeface-design, fontforge, jekyll, creative-commons, fonts, web-server

## Member repositories
- fontforge/designwithfontforge.com (main) score 74

## Provenance
- Observed fields: from GitHub, fetched 2026-08-28T04:03:20.565464+00:00.
- Health v2: computed from the inputs above; adoption is never an input.
- Inferred fields (summary, facets, guidance): AI-extracted, prompt v1, taxonomy v1, on 2026-08-30T07:02:56.531935+00:00, confidence not recorded.
  - readme: https://github.com/fontforge/designwithfontforge.com (fetched 2026-08-28T04:03:20.565464+00:00, sha 0671891b86ea)
  - homepage: http://designwithfontforge.com (fetched 2026-08-29T13:03:54.676887+00:00, sha 6dd09d84b6b5)
  - site_page: http://designwithfontforge.com/en-US/index.html (fetched 2026-08-29T13:03:54.686405+00:00, sha 4e446a85c1ee)
- Data as of 2026-08-30T08:39:29.467469+00:00.