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  Professor Renato Valderramas in Blumenau had a whole class using Fontra: https://tipografia-2026-1.onrender.com/ Lovely process videos.

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  Fontra agora fala Português! Thanks to Hallef Henrique P. Sousa, Eduardo Omine and @hugocarvalho https://github.com/fontra/fontra-pak/releases/latest

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  ¡Fontra ya habla español! Thanks to Adolfo Jayme Barrientos, Miguel A. Contreras, @genramirez and Romina Hernández. https://github.com/fontra/fontra-pak/releases/latest

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  Today's micro tutorials: the pen tool and the pointer tool. Fontra’s pen tool is pretty boring (as it should!) but look at the nifty way to switch from drawing curves to drawing straight lines: click on the last handle to delete it.

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  Making a font for motion from start to finish in Fontra, then animating it with Motion Fonts Player. Demo by @AleksandraSamulenkova Motion Fonts Player by @simontruffer (Sped up 3x)

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  Mini tutorial: make a font variable by adding a Weight axis and draw a bold version of a glyph.

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  Mini tutorial: adding a contextual alternate.

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  Thanks to contributor @t4rik Tarik Rokhsane, the Fontra changelog now has an RSS feed: - https://fontra.xyz/changelog-feed.xml It is updated on each release.

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  @jeremiehornus of U+Type has created (with the help of AI) an independent, online collaborative environment on top of Fontra, with history and a bunch of other neat features: - https://fontrahive.com - https://try.fontrahive.com Guest blog post by Jérémie: - https://blog.fontra.xyz/blog/fontra-hive/ I'm curious what people think!

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  Mini tutorial: multi-source editing

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  RE: https://typo.social/@fontstand/115894282316847781 There will be a Fontra workshop at the @fontstand conference in Berlin.

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  Small update on a huge big fat upcoming update: The new OpenType and text shaping support is almost ready to be released. I'm ironing out some wrinkles in advanced GPOS support, but overall this is working very well, and I am extremely excited to put this out soon. Ongoing kudos to @khaled for contributing essential functionality and providing test cases and domain expertise.

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  (I'm afraid the text boxes don't dynamically resize as intended on Firefox and older Safaris, as these don't support the handy but new-ish `field-sizing: content` CSS bit.)

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  There have been quite a lot of fixes since I last posted about a release here, too many to list in a toot: https://fontra.xyz/changelog.html

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  New blog post! https://blog.fontra.xyz/blog/2026-lets-go/

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  New blog post! https://blog.fontra.xyz/blog/february-update/

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  OMG I did it. There is a new Fontra release chock-full of OpenType goodness. Blog post: - https://blog.fontra.xyz/blog/opentype-harfbuzz/ Download via: - https://fontra.xyz/ - https://github.com/fontra/fontra-pak/releases - Flatpak - Homebrew The changelog is very dense: - https://fontra.xyz/changelog.html Did I mention that @khaled provided key functionality? He did. And it is awesome. Feedback is very welcome!

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  Guest blog post by @khaled with more details about how Fontra and HarfBuzz interact: https://blog.fontra.xyz/blog/fontra-vs-harfbuzz/ (Adapted and expanded from his earlier toots)

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  New batch! All set for the @fontstand conference.

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  Today's Fontra Pak release is no joke! Highlights: - New shaping/OT feature debugger (in the "Input characters and output glyphs" panel) - Improved browser tab management (reuse existing tabs where possible and where useful) - Added .woff2 export option (contributed by @mitradranirban) As always, more detailed notes here: - https://fontra.xyz/changelog.html Download: - https://github.com/fontra/fontra-pak/releases

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  Help Wanted: Windows users seem to prefer a proper installer over a loose .exe from a .zip archive. I'm not enough of a Windows user/developer to make this a reality. Can I nerd-snipe anyone into contributing? https://github.com/fontra/fontra-pak/issues/209