Modular Font Editor K (MFEK) is an open source (Apache 2.0 licensed) modular font editor. It attempts to apply the Unix adage that each program should “do one thing and do it well” to a GUI font editor.
MFEK is still alpha, and many parts are missing (including a good website!). You can help!
To pull all modules, why not use this script?
/bin/bash -c "$(curl -fsSL https://raw.githubusercontent.com/MFEK/docs/master/blob/pull_all_modules.sh)"
To see who wrote an MFEK module, check its AUTHORS file. The two main authors of MFEK are Fredrick R. Brennan (@ctrlcctrlv) and Matthew Blanchard (@MatthewBlanchard).
MFEKglif (.glif editor w/planned Spiro support)MFEKstroke (applies different kinds of strokes to .glif files with open contours)MFEKmetadata (UFO metadata querier)MFEKabout (MFEK's about screen)MFEKufo (a launcher for MFEKglif that displays all glyphs)MFEKdesignspace (design space XML creator/editor)MFEKtransform (transform, skew glyphs w/CLI options / GUI)MFEKinterpolate (an interpolation confirmer / tester)MFEKmetrics (load UFO file into HarfBuzz and output typed text, edit horizontal/vertical kerning and bearings)MFEKopentype (OpenType layout editor based on @simoncozens' ideas)MFEKexport (frontend to fontmake)MFEKpshints (Add PostScript hints to glyphs and test them)MFEKtruetype (basically would be an open source version of Visual TrueType (VTT))glifparser.rlib (a .glif parser)integer-or-float.rlib (implements a .glif data type)<lib> in .glif files, and due to how they went about implementing Norad, fixing that is trickier than having my own glyph parser. Furthermore, as I plan to support Spiro, B-Splines, etc., through UFO format extensions, I should have one anyway.)icu-data.rlib (Unicode ICU data without C libicu, currently only encodings)ipc.rlib (very basic inter-process communication functions)math.rlib (implements algorithms for MFEKstroke: Pattern-Along-Path, Variable/Constant Width Stroke, etc.)SplineSet type from FontForge.)bindgen)