Generate Trial Fonts

[bobby]

Hi guys,

I hope this isn’t a silly / naive question, but I was wondering if there was an easy way to generate trial fonts (A-Z, a-z) in Robofont. I couldn’t find any robofont related documentation about this, but I may be missing something obvious.

Does anybody on here generate trial fonts from Robofont, if so it would be much appreciated if you could give me a few pointers.

Thanks!

[gferreira]

added as a new How-To: Generating trial fonts

[gferreira]

hello @bobby,

you can use the FontTools subsetter to subset an existing OpenType font:

from fontTools import subset

srcPath = 'myFolder/MyFont.ttf'
dstPath = srcPath.replace('.ttf', '-Trial.ttf')

options = subset.Options()
# print(dir(options))
font = subset.load_font(srcPath, options)
subsetter = subset.Subsetter(options)
subsetter.populate(text='ABCD abcd')
subsetter.subset(font)
subset.save_font(font, dstPath, options)

I’ll add an example to the docs — thanks for your feedback!