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Decker comes with a very basic font editor in the "examples" directory: fontedit.deck. The font editor lets you make copies of existing fonts and modify glyphs and metadata. When you're finished, save the font editor deck, and then you can use the Font/DA Mover to import fonts from that deck into other projects.

On a low level, fonts are represented as FNT0 datablocks, and the Font Interface offers an API for manipulating fonts with scripts. These might be handy if you want to try making a better font editor or making your own conversion/import tools from scratch.

There's also some information that might be useful in this older thread: https://itch.io/t/2455731/importing-custom-fonts-from-file

Does that help?

BenyDanette1 year ago (1 edit)

Hmmm, I guess it's too complicated for me, I've tried to use the script you gave to edit the font, but I'm not able to make It work. I guess I'll remove every accent and it will be alright.

Internet Janitor1 year ago

Did you try the font editor tool that I mentioned?

If there's anything in particular about the UI that doesn't make sense I could attempt to clarify.

BenyDanette1 year ago

i would love to use it but I can’t figure how to have the screenshot you show me :/

Internet Janitor1 year ago

Decker's font editor is a deck made in Decker itself, rather than a built-in feature.

If you download Decker on itch, inside the zip file is a directory named "examples", and inside that directory is a deck named "fontedit.deck".

If you run Decker and then open "fontedit.deck", you will have an editor like the screenshot above. As I noted earlier, if you make changes to this deck and save it, you can then import your newly created/modified fonts from fontedit.deck into other decks.

Is that more clear?

BenyDanette1 year ago(+1)

Aaah it works! My mistake was that instead of opening, I just dragged fontedit.deck directly onto my deck!

Excellent, I'll look into it, thanks!