The Unified Font Object (UFO) is a cross-platform, cross-application, human-readable format for storing font data. It is stored within a folder, that consist of metainfo.plist, fontinfo.plist, lib.plist, and a collection of individual glyph outlines along with contents.plist. The folder may contain other files like features.fea, but those are not required.
FontCreator supports both importing and exporting UFO based fonts. UFO import covers UFO versions 1, 2, and 3. Exporting UFO is always version 3. FontCreator does support kerning, feature.fea, and several public libs.
Supporting libs:
•public.glyphOrder
•public.skipExportGlyphs
•public.unicodeVariationSequences
•public.verticalOrigin
•public.markColor
•public.openTypeMeta
•com.github.fonttools.varLib.featureVarsFeatureTag
FontCreator currently does not support other extensions or binaries, so if external software has custom data, that will be ignored on importing.
Note: UFO does not cover all font data. We recommend to always save your fonts as a font project.
More information about UFO:
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