SPECIALS CHARACTERS

[Karsten Hilbert]

On Wed, Apr 15, 2020 at 08:45:45AM -0400, Gonzalo V wrote:

> A tiny question.
>  Are there a way to create a new character on python? i need to create some
> kind of arroba @ but with other letter inside. Are there a library for that?

Hello Gonzalo,

this is a font issue, and entirely unrelated to Python
itself.

As for Python libraries that might help in making fonts (or
glyphs, in your case), here's a list:

python3-compreffor - CFF table subroutinizer for FontTools
python3-defcon - UFO based objects for use in font editing applications
python3-fontmake - Python library for compiling fonts from UFO or Glyphs to OTF/TTF
python3-fontmath - Objects for performing math operations on font data
python3-fontpens - Classes implementing Pen protocol for manipulating UFO glyphs
python3-fonttools - Converts OpenType and TrueType fonts to and from XML (Python 3 Library)
python3-glyphslib - Library for converting between Glyphs files (.glyphs) and UFOs
python3-psautohint - Python library for standalone version of the AFDKO autohinter
python3-fontconfig - python bindings for the Fontconfig library for Python3
python3-fontconfig-dbg - python bindings for the Fontconfig library for Python3 (debug build)
python3-qtawesome - iconic fonts in PyQt and PySide applications (Python 3)
python3-xstatic-font-awesome - Font Awesome XStatic support - Python 3.x
python3-xstatic-mdi - Material Design Icons Webfont XStatic support - Python 3.x
python3-xstatic-roboto-fontface - Roboto Fontface XStatic support - Python 3.x
python3-ufo2ft - Bridge from UFOs to fonttools objects
python3-ufolib2 - Unified Font Object (UFO) fonts library
python3-ufonormalizer - Python library to normalize the XML and other data inside of a UFO
python3-fontforge - font editor - Python bindings
python3-fontparts - API for interacting with the parts of fonts
python3-freetype - Freetype Python bindings for Python 3
python3-nototools - font support tools from the Noto Fonts project
python3-ufoprocessor - Process and generate Unified Font Object (UFO) files

Karsten
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