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• Post #3751102

  Mini tutorial: multi-source editing

• Post #1837082

  RE: https://typo.social/@fontstand/115894282316847781 There will be a Fontra workshop at the @fontstand conference in Berlin.

• Post #1807937

  Small update on a huge big fat upcoming update: The new OpenType and text shaping support is almost ready to be released. I'm ironing out some wrinkles in advanced GPOS support, but overall this is working very well, and I am extremely excited to put this out soon. Ongoing kudos to @khaled for contributing essential functionality and providing test cases and domain expertise.

• Post #1147091

  New blog post! https://blog.fontra.xyz/blog/2026-lets-go/

• Post #943096

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

• Post #905353

  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 provided key functionality? He did. And it is awesome. Feedback is very welcome!

• Post #905351

  Guest blog post by @khaled with more details about how Fontra and HarfBuzz interact: https://blog.fontra.xyz/blog/fontra-vs-harfbuzz/ (Adapted and expanded from his earlier toots)

• Post #905349

  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/

• Post #905348

  New batch! All set for the @fontstand conference.

• Post #905347

  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

• Post #905346

  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) As always, more detailed notes here: - https://fontra.xyz/changelog.html Download: - https://github.com/fontra/fontra-pak/releases

• Post #905345

  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