Libre Graphics Meeting 2026

Phosphor is a humble text-based tool/workflow for creating fonts. It offers an alternative approach to type design compared to traditional GUI and WYSIWYG vector font editors. In Phosphor, glyphs are represented in text, similar to ASCII art, and are accompanied by metadata stored in a YAML frontmatter. These textual glyph representations are converted into SVG using custom Python scripts and then assembled into a vector font via the FontForge scripting interpreter. From a single textual glyph representation, multiple vector glyph variants can be generated.

A small workshop about Phosphor.