Runebender is a cross-platform, free and open-source font editor built on the Linebender ecosystem of Rust crates.

In the tradition of font editors like RoboFont, Runebender is designed to be a starting point for building your own custom tools and workflows.

Runebender uses UFO and Designspace sources. It also opens Glyphs and Fontra sources with basic alpha support, and imports compiled TTF and OTF fonts. See supported formats and limitations for details.

Runebender is designed for working with local AI, with tools and workflows built around models running on your own computer.

Runebender editing an outlined letter R with curvature combs and continuity markers Runebender showing a graph workflow: a model boldening a master, compared and installed Runebender showing the Virtua Grotesk glyph grid Runebender editing Arabic calligraphy with colored regions, a glyph browser, and a rendered preview Runebender editing colored Arabic calligraphy regions with the glyph browser hidden and a rendered preview below

Installation

macOS downloads and installation

cargo install --git https://github.com/fontgarden/runebender

Source Code