# briangonzalez/fontprep

🔣 The missing font generator for Mac OSX.

Repository: https://github.com/briangonzalez/fontprep
Canonical: https://ross.abutalabs.com/products/fontprep
Language: JavaScript
License: GPL-3.0
License Family: copyleft
Last push: 2017-10-19T16:55:33+00:00

## Health v2 (maintenance only)
Score: 23/100 (v2, computed 2026-09-02T17:46:02.011165+00:00)
- activity 0, release rhythm 8, longevity 100
- inputs: {"age_days": 4605, "days_push": 3240, "days_rel": null, "gap_med": null, "n_releases_24m": 0}
- flags: none
- formula: round(0.45*activity + 0.35*rhythm + 0.20*longevity); archived -> min(score, 10)

## Adoption (not part of the score)
Stars 1218, forks 64 (observed 2026-08-28T04:04:01.588101+00:00)

## What it is
FontPrep is a Mac desktop application that converts TTF and OTF font files into web font formats (WOFF, EOT, SVG). It is no longer maintained and has been superseded by fontplop.

## Use cases
- convert ttf fonts to woff for the web
- generate eot and svg web font files
- prepare font files for a website
- batch convert otf fonts to web formats
- mac app for web font generation

## When to choose
- you need a simple GUI on macOS to convert fonts to legacy web formats
- you are on an old macOS setup where it still runs

## When to avoid
- you want maintained software - use fontplop instead
- you need modern formats like WOFF2
- you are on Linux or Windows

## Facets
- artifact type: application
- maturity: abandoned
- function: gui, file-system, developer-tools
- domain: web-development, frontend, developer-tools, files
- platform: -
- tags: font-conversion, webfonts, font-generation, sinatra, deprecated, macos, desktop

## Member repositories
- briangonzalez/fontprep (main) score 23

## Provenance
- Observed fields: from GitHub, fetched 2026-08-28T04:04:01.588101+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 2026-08-30T06:17:02.701272+00:00, confidence not recorded.
  - readme: https://github.com/briangonzalez/fontprep (fetched 2026-08-28T04:04:01.588101+00:00, sha fe21ad84f0dd)
- Data as of 2026-08-30T08:39:29.467469+00:00.