Font

Manage and Manipulate fonts with PowerShell

With the Font module, you can:

• Get-Font - Get Installed Fonts
• Export-Font - Export a font to various formats
• Import-Font - Import a font as SVG

We can always get installed fonts.

To Export and Import fonts, we need to install FontForge, and ensure it is loaded in the path.

Fonts 101

Fonts are fun!

Fonts are a series of symbols, often used to represent text.

Each symbol in a font is called a Glyph.

All of the glyphs in a font are called the Font Face.

Fonts with similar faces (and often similar designers) are called a Font Family.

The Font module is designed to help you work with fonts.

It allows you to import and export fonts, get specific glyphs, and edit a typeface.

Installing the Font Module

# Install the Font Module from the PowerShell Gallery
Install-Module Font 

# Import the font module
Import-Module Font 

Cloning and Importing

You can also clone the repository and import the module

git clone https://github.com/PowerShellWeb/Font
cd ./Font
Import-Module ./ -Force -PassThru

Font GitHub Action

The Font module has a GitHub action, and can be run in a workflow.

To use the font action, simply refer to this repository:

- name: BuildFont
  uses: PowerShellWeb/Font@main

Any file named *.font.ps1 will be executed.

Any outputted files will be checked in.

Basic Examples

# Import a random font
$importRandomFont = Get-Font | Get-Random | Import-Font

# Get the bounding box
$importRandomFont.BoundingBox

# Get the glyph for 'p' and get it's path data
$importRandomFont.GetGlyph("P").d
# We can change the path by setting 'd'
# Font glyphs are drawn "upside-down", and should fit within the bounding box.

For more examples, see the Examples directory