Fontra

Help Wanted: Windows users seem to prefer a proper installer over a loose .exe from a .zip archive. I'm not enough of a Windows user/developer to make this a reality. Can I nerd-snipe anyone into contributing? https://github.com/fontra/fontra-pak/issues/209

Today's Fontra Pak release is no joke!

Highlights:
- New shaping/OT feature debugger (in the "Input characters and output glyphs" panel)
- Improved browser tab management (reuse existing tabs where possible and where useful)
- Added .woff2 export option (contributed by @mitradranirban@typo.social)

As always, more detailed notes here:
- https://fontra.xyz/changelog.html

Download:
- https://github.com/fontra/fontra-pak/releases

Interesting bug reported on Discord the other day: on Windows, if the font files are in a OneDrive folder, OneDrive will bump the modification time when syncing a changed file , causing Fontra to receive another "file changed" event, making it think the file was changed externally, although it hasn't really, making it reload the data associated with the file.

Fixed in the latest release: https://github.com/fontra/fontra-pak/releases

New batch! All set for the @fontstand@typo.social conference.

For the editor and the font overview, Fontra uses the URL fragment to store certain aspects of the UI (text string, selection, zoom, location, etc).

I've made a little tool that helps me debug Fontra's URL fragment, and I though it would be nice to share.

https://fontra.github.io/fontra-url-inspector/

Guest blog post by @khaled@typo.social with more details about how Fontra and HarfBuzz interact:

https://blog.fontra.xyz/blog/fontra-vs-harfbuzz/

(Adapted and expanded from his earlier toots)

OMG I did it. There is a new Fontra release chock-full of OpenType goodness.

Blog post:
- https://blog.fontra.xyz/blog/opentype-harfbuzz/

Download via:
- https://fontra.xyz/
- https://github.com/fontra/fontra-pak/releases
- Flatpak
- Homebrew

The changelog is very dense:
- https://fontra.xyz/changelog.html

Did I mention that @khaled@typo.social provided key functionality? He did. And it is awesome.

Feedback is very welcome!

New blog post!

https://blog.fontra.xyz/blog/2026-lets-go/

New blog post! https://blog.fontra.xyz/blog/february-update/