FontForge
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5recommend
1warn against
Jan 18, 2026first mention
Oct 20, 2026latest mention
Why people recommend it
“You can edit a font and remove the ligatures you dislike using fontforge”
“If you want a tutorial, http://designwithfontforge.com might be up your alley.”
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“Font Forge is fantastic and very easy to use”
“So now I’m spending quality time with FOSS called FontForge.”
Caveats and dissent
“you can easily prove me wrong by finding a single professional font designer who uses FontForge as their daily driver.”
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All comments 11
“You can edit a font and remove the ligatures you dislike using fontforge”
“I have used Fontforge to remove all ligatures from a programming font”
“you can easily prove me wrong by finding a single professional font designer who uses FontForge as their daily driver.”
“I use FontForge because I'm a pleb hobbyist without a Mac”
“If you want a tutorial, http://designwithfontforge.com might be up your alley.”
“Font Forge is fantastic and very easy to use”
“using FontForge”
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“I used to create two fonts and merge them with FontForge to get a complete usable font.”
“So now I’m spending quality time with FOSS called FontForge.”
“Even the TeX Gyre fonts use FontForge [0] rather than Metafont.”