Contributor Developer Setup
- Prerequisites
- Required
- Highly Recommended
- Base Nerd Fonts Development
- Hack (Knack) font specific
- OSX
- Linux 0. FreeType 0. Harfbuzz 0. ttfautohint
- Sanity Tests
- Troubleshooting
- Resources
- The basics of what you need to get up and running :)
- Git
- FontForge
- FontForge python bindings
- Python 2 and/or Python 3
- ShellCheck
- Pyflakes (PEP8 compliance)
- What you need to contribute to the core of Nerd Fonts
todo
todo
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- What you need to contribute to the Hack (Knack) specific portion of Nerd Fonts
todo
- FreeType
- Harfbuzz
- ttfautohint
cd freetype-2.7
./configure
make
sudo make install
wget http://www.freedesktop.org/software/harfbuzz/release/harfbuzz-1.3.4.tar.bz2
tar -xjf harfbuzz-1.3.4.tar.bz2
cd harfbuzz-1.3.4
./configure
make
sudo make install
sudo apt install g++
cd ttfautohint-1.6
./configure --with-qt=no --with-doc=no
make
sudo make install
ttfautohint --version
ttfautohint 1.6
ttfautohint -l 4 -r 80 -G 350 -x 0 -H 181 -D latn -f latn -w G -W -t -X "" -I -m "bin/scripts/Hack/Hack-Regular-TA.txt" Knack\ Regular\ Nerd\ Font\ Complete.ttf.tmp Knack\ Regular\ Nerd\ Font\ Complete.ttf
ttfautohint: unrecognized option '-H'
cause: Too old of a version of ttfautohint, works but doesn't have -H option
checking for HARFBUZZ... no
configure: error: Package requirements (harfbuzz >= 0.9.19) were not met:
No package 'harfbuzz' found
Consider adjusting the PKG_CONFIG_PATH environment variable if you
installed software in a non-standard prefix.
Alternatively, you may set the environment variables HARFBUZZ_CFLAGS
and HARFBUZZ_LIBS to avoid the need to call pkg-config.
See the pkg-config man page for more details.
cause: harfbuzz not installed or not installed correctly
tashaper.h:29:19: fatal error: hb-ft.h: No such file or directory
#include <hb-ft.h>
^
compilation terminated.
cause: harfbuzz not installed or not installed correctly
ttfautohint: undefined symbol: hb_ft_font_create
cause: harfbuzz not installed or not installed correctly