Get Font Chars

Lightweight python 3 script used to output all characters supported by a font into text file or console output. One of the usages is to get supported font characters for Unity's TextMesh Pro font asset generation.

Bonus: pre-generated maps of popular fonts

Requirements

Developed with Python 3.9

Installed fonttools: pip3 install fonttools

Usage

Basic usage, output all font characters to the text file: python getfontchars.py -i font.ttf -o font.txt

Print all font characters to console: python getfontchars.py -i font.ttf -t

Specify font page if the font has multiple pages (pages are starting from 0): python getfontchars.py -i font.ttf -p 1 -o font.txt

Help page:

usage: getfontchars.py [-h] [-p PAGE] [-t [PRINT]] [-o OUTPUT] -i INPUT


optional arguments:
  -h, --help            show this help message and exit
  -p PAGE, --page PAGE  Font page if multipage font
  -t [PRINT], --print [PRINT]
                        Print list of character to console
  -o OUTPUT, --output OUTPUT
                        Output UTF-8 txt file

required named arguments:
  -i INPUT, --input INPUT
                        Input font file

Limitations

Some fonts can't be processed, such as Webdings or Symbols.

Also

Check out already generated character maps