UFO to TTF for Webfonts

Lucas Dino Nolte
Posts: 2
Hey,
I was wondering what your average process looks like for generating webfonts. Is there a good way to generate preliminary TTF Files from your instance UFOs (possibly on the command line, so things can be automated), that can then serve as a basis for hinting before being distributed?
Checking out some Font Repos on Github (Roboto and Source Sans for instance) showed that everybody seems to do this differently, so I was wondering about best practices.
Cheers from Germany,
Lucas
I was wondering what your average process looks like for generating webfonts. Is there a good way to generate preliminary TTF Files from your instance UFOs (possibly on the command line, so things can be automated), that can then serve as a basis for hinting before being distributed?
Checking out some Font Repos on Github (Roboto and Source Sans for instance) showed that everybody seems to do this differently, so I was wondering about best practices.
Cheers from Germany,
Lucas
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There's 2 basic options: AFDKO from Adobe, and fontmake from Google. Both will ingest UFO and output TTF.0
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Thanks Dave, but how would such a workflow look than (what functions/scripts would you use)? From what I understood about AFDKO it can make open type TTF Files from a ttf source. I am looking for a way to generate said ttf source from a UFO file.0
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