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I've always wanted to make my own font, is there a font creating application which will have the following features?:

  • Ability to draw fonts with different tools (similar collection of tools to GIMP, the ability to change the thickness of lines, and layers)

  • Ability to import and edit already existing fonts in the ttf, eol, and svg formats

  • Ability to export fonts in the ttf, eol, and svg format

  • Ability to create name, description, copyright notice, and specify if it is a normal, bold, or italic, or bold and italic

I am running Ubuntu GNOME 15.10 with GNOME 3.18.

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Birdfont is just the application for you then! Install it with:

sudo apt-get install birdfont

You can do all of what you have requested and more with it!

Description:

Font editor that lets you create outline vector graphics and export fonts
Birdfont is a free, open source font editor that lets you create outline
vector graphics and export ttf, eot & svg fonts.

Screenshots (but please don't judge the program by my bad drawing of the letter A where I should have drawn the letter B ;P):

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  • Note: While the installation in **ubuntu 16.04.5** happens without a warning, starting birdfont gives `birdfont: error while loading shared libraries: libxmlbird.so.1.0: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory` – Hagen von Eitzen Dec 08 '18 at 12:01
  • Note: Installation with *apt* and use in **Ubuntu 20.04.1** is no problemo. – Déjà vu Mar 26 '22 at 07:51