fontra/fontra

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A browser-based font editor

Stars: 834
Forks: 55
Open beginner issues: 2
Indexed issues: 201
Avg merge: 1h 56m
Merged PRs (30d): 27

Dominant language: JavaScript
License: GPL-3.0
Last GitHub push: Sep 18, 2026
Latest indexed: Sep 16, 2026
Contributing guide: No contributing guide
Code of conduct: No code of conduct
Beginner labels: help wanted

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201 open issues indexed

Making background images visible for empty glyphs in spacing tool Open

Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 62/100

fontra/fontra#2775 · 1 comment · Opened Sep 20, 2026
[UX] Glyph Editor: Display text entry caret on canvas Open

Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 65/100

fontra/fontra#2757 · 1 comment · Opened Sep 1, 2026
long axis names Open

Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 48/100

fontra/fontra#2747 · 1 comment · Opened Aug 29, 2026
Add sorting options to font overview sidebar Open

Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 58/100

fontra/fontra#2716 · 1 comment · 2 reactions · Opened Jul 23, 2026
Support localized names Open

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 45/100

fontra/fontra#2715 · 1 comment · Opened Jul 22, 2026
I would like to make a donation to support the great software Fontra Open

Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 10/100

fontra/fontra#2712 · 5 comments · 4 reactions · Opened Jul 21, 2026
Pasting anchors should replace any anchor with the same name Open

Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 58/100

fontra/fontra#2706 · 2 comments · 1 reaction · Opened Jul 17, 2026
Auto-generate diacriticked letters Open

Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 35/100

fontra/fontra#2700 · 3 comments · Opened Jul 16, 2026
Add min/def/max value inputs to "New axis" dialog + propagate default value changes to sources Open

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 56/100

fontra/fontra#2667 · 4 comments · Opened Jun 28, 2026
[UX] Allow swapping source layer content Open

Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 35/100

fontra/fontra#2655 · 2 comments · Opened Jun 21, 2026
Add "New cross-axis mapping group" dialog to construct a group of mappings Open

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 38/100

fontra/fontra#2653 · 2 comments · Opened Jun 20, 2026
Configure Canvas Scaling physically, so that I can see glyphs in Real Points Open

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 48/100

fontra/fontra#2651 · 8 comments · Opened Jun 20, 2026
Add Console Log tab to App Settings tab, and add detailed info to each log item to help users debug their project Open

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 45/100

fontra/fontra#2649 · 2 comments · Opened Jun 20, 2026
Actionable 'create glyph' response to setting a Side Bearing Tool value on a glyph that wasn't yet created Open

Difficulty 2/5 1-3 hours Newbie friendliness 65/100

fontra/fontra#2648 · 1 comment · 1 reaction · Opened Jun 20, 2026
Guideline attribute "show globally" Open

Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 65/100

fontra/fontra#2647 · 2 comments · Opened Jun 20, 2026
Support for OpenType MATH tables and mathematical fonts? Open

Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 25/100

fontra/fontra#2646 · 1 comment · Opened Jun 19, 2026
[cross-axis mappings] Add "duplicate mapping" button Open

Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 35/100

fontra/fontra#2643 · Opened Jun 18, 2026
Axis Name string propagation Open

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 48/100

fontra/fontra#2642 · 6 comments · Opened Jun 18, 2026
Font Axes click to reveal axis metadata: Show OT tag Open

Difficulty 2/5 1-3 hours Newbie friendliness 68/100

fontra/fontra#2641 · 2 comments · Opened Jun 18, 2026
Sidebearing Tool "Can't edit glyph $glyph" dialog 'new source' button Open

Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 65/100

fontra/fontra#2640 · 1 comment · Opened Jun 18, 2026
Glyph Info right side panel to show Point Info metadata too (and make it editable) Open

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 55/100

fontra/fontra#2637 · 2 comments · Opened Jun 18, 2026
Quadratic bezier drawing: Select and align both on-curve and off-curve points Open

Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 55/100

fontra/fontra#2636 · 3 comments · Opened Jun 18, 2026
Quadratic bezier drawing on par with cubic Open

Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 30/100

fontra/fontra#2632 · 3 comments · Opened Jun 16, 2026
Support all 4 boring expansion spec changes Open

Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 35/100

fontra/fontra#2615 · 4 comments · Opened Jun 3, 2026
[designspace] Read public.openTypeCategories from designspace lib as well Open

Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 55/100

fontra/fontra#2612 · Opened Jun 2, 2026
Firefox SVG paste Open

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 38/100

fontra/fontra#2611 · 1 comment · Opened Jun 1, 2026
"Cross-axis mapping" window "new" ordering, ordering and grouping, and preview Open

Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 25/100

fontra/fontra#2596 · 28 comments · Opened May 18, 2026
Suggestions on Operation Logic Open

Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 25/100

fontra/fontra#2593 · 6 comments · Opened May 15, 2026
List "Recent files" in Fontra Pak Open Dialog Open

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 48/100

fontra/fontra#2578 · Opened May 5, 2026
Fontras status color ≠ public.markColor Open

Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 48/100

fontra/fontra#2561 · 4 comments · 1 reaction · Opened Apr 30, 2026
Show the "nice" axis name in axis panels instead of the identifier Open

Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 52/100

fontra/fontra#2554 · 1 comment · Opened Apr 21, 2026
Show axes contributing to the current glyph (and instance location) Open

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 45/100

fontra/fontra#2553 · 19 comments · Opened Apr 20, 2026
Path operations sometimes convert cubics to quadratics Open

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 48/100

fontra/fontra#2551 · 6 comments · Opened Apr 16, 2026
Decomposing components should be smarter about anchor propagation Open

Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 52/100

fontra/fontra#2518 · 2 comments · Opened Mar 26, 2026
Need UI to set custom glyph category and subcategory Open

Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 48/100

fontra/fontra#2494 · 1 comment · Opened Mar 12, 2026
Implement text segmenting and bidirectional text Open

Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 35/100

fontra/fontra#2432 · Opened Feb 26, 2026
Unicode code point should be editable Open

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 42/100

fontra/fontra#2397 · 1 comment · Opened Jan 26, 2026
Very small problems in Firefox. Open

Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 35/100

fontra/fontra#2391 · 4 comments · Opened Jan 21, 2026
Firefox: Copy/paste seems to fail after first time Open

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 30/100

fontra/fontra#2390 · 5 comments · Opened Jan 21, 2026
Implement live OpenType feature previewing and text shaping Open

Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 15/100

fontra/fontra#2381 · Opened Jan 19, 2026
[fontra-workflow] Add support for sparse kerning exceptions in Open

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 35/100

fontra/fontra#2307 · Opened Nov 13, 2025
Feature Enhancement: Add glyph preview to Component selection window Open

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 35/100

fontra/fontra#2301 · 1 comment · Opened Oct 31, 2025
[Feature] Loading OpenType features from existing OTF/TTF Open

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 30/100

fontra/fontra#2294 · 4 comments · 1 reaction · Opened Oct 24, 2025
[deployment/webpack] Some assets are not packed with a hash in the file name Open

help wanted

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 35/100

fontra/fontra#2291 · 5 comments · Opened Oct 17, 2025
Side bearing should show a vertical line during adjustment Open

Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 42/100

fontra/fontra#2272 · 2 comments · Opened Aug 29, 2025
[feature request] Different Color for Components in Editing View Open

Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 35/100

fontra/fontra#2271 · Opened Aug 29, 2025
[designspace] Kerning can not be edited when source UFOs have inconsistent groups Open

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 30/100

fontra/fontra#2250 · 1 comment · Opened Aug 11, 2025
[feature] Add handles to segment with Pointer tool and Alt+Click Open

Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 38/100

fontra/fontra#2248 · 1 reaction · Opened Aug 3, 2025
Making new font requires internet connection Open

Difficulty 2/5 1-3 hours Newbie friendliness 45/100

fontra/fontra#2244 · 1 comment · Opened Jul 29, 2025
Deleting a glyph does not delete the glyph name entry from GDEF section of features.fea Open

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 20/100

fontra/fontra#2242 · 1 comment · Opened Jul 28, 2025

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