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How can I change a font's Family? I have 4 fonts belonging to the same family and I wish to separate them.

Also, I would also want to rename the Font itself.

A simple file name change is NOT enough.

I'm looking for a free tool to do this, but came out empty handed after Googling a bit. All Font "studios" demand money.

I should specify that I need to do this in the Operating System itself, so I need to modify the TTF/OTF/actual font file.

Axonn
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  • What does this have to do with programming...? – BoltClock Sep 09 '12 at 21:26
  • I need this for a Flash-player related issue. Besides, programmers know tools ::- ). Anyway, I realized that I might have posted this on SuperUser or somewhere else, but I just didn't know if that's a better place for this question. You decide. – Axonn Sep 09 '12 at 21:27
  • Does this answer your question? [How do you change a TTF font name?](https://superuser.com/questions/120593/how-do-you-change-a-ttf-font-name) – Steven Pease Aug 12 '22 at 04:29

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Any special reason for changing the font details? (just curious...)

anyway i found this little tool: http://fontforge.org/ (Which is cross platform and open source!)

hope it helps :)

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  • It's a long story :D. There are some issues regarding the way Adobe Flash returns me the Font Name so I need to rename them in order to achieve a certain task. – Axonn Sep 09 '12 at 21:26
  • Thanks for this. Font Forge helped me to resolve a name conflict by changing the name of OpenSans-ExtraBoldItalic from the accidentally named OpenSans-Italic. – ow3n Aug 22 '21 at 17:33
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TTFedit did the job for me. It has a much smaller footprint and was easier to use for me.

Just start ttfedit.jar, open a .ttf, select the "name" tab on the left side, edit the family names, subfamily names, etc. and save as a new .ttf.

In my case, I had to wipe Photoshop's font cache before my changed font got recognized.

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I know that is a bit older, but I found a method for .otf files:

  1. Download FontForge
  2. Edit the three names (>Element,>Fontinfo) and export it as a .ttf file.
  3. Then grab this old Windows program: https://www.microsoft.com/typography/property/fpedit.htm
  4. Open the created .ttf with fpedit and skip the steps (just click next till the program is ready)
  5. Click on "Save as"
  6. Be happy
G-Man Says 'Reinstate Monica'
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Marvin
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Just import your font file in the online GlyphrStudio font editor, click on menu icon and go to Font settings, apply your desire changes and export the font.

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fontname.py allows to rename a font on the CLI, it depends on fonttools.

Git repo: https://github.com/chrissimpkins/fontname.py

fonttools could be installed with pip: pip3 install fonttools

Example for renaming a font title (new title will be: Nerd Symbols 2048):

python fontname.py 'Nerd Symbols 2048' 'Symbols-2048-em Nerd Font Complete.ttf'

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If you upload the font's file (with the new name) to the server you can use it after defining it as a font. For example: If I want Arial to be called Ari, I can just change the file's name and upload it to my server. Then I will just write the following line in the css file:

@font-face{font-family:Ari; src:url('Ari.ttf');}

font-family is the name of the new font.

src is the file's address.

To use the new font write something like: H1{font-family:'Ari';}


As to the first part of your question, I don't understand what you mean. Please clarify.

  • I maybe should have specified that I need to do this with some fonts in my Windows installation. – Axonn Sep 09 '12 at 21:24
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Per this answer on StackOverflow:

  • Import your font file in the online Glyphrstudio font editor
  • Click the hamburger icon on the top left
  • Select font setting and change title and meta data from there
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