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FontForge

FontForge is a font management program, available on Windows and Linux: command-line use.

  • Completely free
  • Windows and Linux
  • Open source
  • No account

Overview

FontForge is a font management program, available on Windows and Linux.

Features described in its Flathub listing: command-line use.

Overview written by LicitPro from the documentation published by the authors and the cited sources; we have not tried the resource ourselves.

Excerpts that establish this information
  • “An outline font editor” — Flathub, 10 November 2026
  • “You can use FontForge Graphically or as a command-line tool.” — Flathub, 10 November 2026

At a glance

All of FontForge is free: no feature is locked behind a paid plan, and its code is open.

Its licence (GPL-3.0+) is a copyleft open source licence: you may use, study, modify and redistribute it, including commercially; modified versions must keep the same licence.

Strengths

  • Open source code
  • No account needed
  • Commercial use allowed

About

FontForge is a font editor for outline and bitmap fonts that lets you create, edit, or convert, a range of fonts, including PostScript, TrueType, OpenType, cid-keyed, multi-master, cff, SVG and BitMap (bdf, FON, NFNT) fonts. FontForge is free Open Source Software written to run on various computer operating systems. You can use FontForge Graphically or as a command-line tool. Learning to use FontForge is easy, and there are various tutorials available beginning with the basics up to more advanced features such as making and using scripts.

Description from Flathub — AppStream (Flathub)

Sources and checks

  • Facts collected from Flathub (credit card, publisher, licence, free status, platforms, commercial use, version) —
  • Facts collected from Winget (Windows Package Manager) (credit card, account, source code, publisher, licence, free status, platforms, commercial use, version) —
  • Last technical check: 7 November 2026
  • Description from Flathub — AppStream (Flathub)

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