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We have not seen enough recent pull requests from outside contributors to googlefonts/fontquant to say how often they are merged. No beginner-friendly issue is open right now; the list below has the other issues we hold for it.

Stars
25
Forks
1
Open beginner issues
0
Indexed issues
15
Dominant language
Rust
License
Apache-2.0
Last GitHub push
Aug 18, 2026
Latest indexed
Sep 16, 2026
No contributing guide
No code of conduct
Beginner labels
No beginner labels indexed
No merged PRs in 30d

How to contribute to googlefonts/fontquant

  1. There is no contributing guide, so start from the README and a few recently merged pull requests to see how changes are proposed.
  2. Your contributions will be published under the project's Apache-2.0 license.
  3. Follow the repository to hear when a new beginner-friendly issue opens, or look through the other issues below.
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  • Invalid value for numerals/slashed_zero
    Open
    • Is something wrong?

    Difficulty 2/5 1-3 hours Newbie friendliness 72/100

    googlefonts/fontquant#43 ·

  • Identify serif and terminal classes
    Open
    • Is something wrong?

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

    googlefonts/fontquant#40 ·

  • COLR calculations may be off
    May be free again Open
    • Is something wrong?

    googlefonts/fontquant#35 · 1 comment · 1 assignee ·

  • Measure XTSP
    Open
    • Is something wrong?

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

    googlefonts/fontquant#33 ·

  • Measure optical size
    Open
    • Is something wrong?

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

    googlefonts/fontquant#32 · 1 comment ·

  • Port freetype/skrifa-autohint bluezone measurements
    Open
    • Is something wrong?

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

    googlefonts/fontquant#31 ·

  • [new check] Are caps swashed by default?
    Open
    • Is something wrong?

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

    googlefonts/fontquant#29 · 4 comments ·

  • Measure more OpenType features?
    Open
    • Is something wrong?

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

    googlefonts/fontquant#26 ·

  • Measure suitability for typical text classes (informed by opsz measurement)
    Open
    • Is something wrong?

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

    googlefonts/fontquant#25 ·

  • Measure kerning
    Open
    • Is something wrong?

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

    googlefonts/fontquant#24 ·

  • Division by zero error
    Open
    • Is something wrong?

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

    googlefonts/fontquant#18 · 1 reaction ·

  • Measure 'shaped height'
    Open
    • Is something wrong?

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

    googlefonts/fontquant#15 ·

  • Measure Stems across weight, width, optical size
    Open
    • Is something wrong?

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

    googlefonts/fontquant#14 ·

  • New values: CSS values
    Open
    • Is something wrong?

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

    googlefonts/fontquant#12 ·

  • Supply user-defined character lists for metrics that measure more than one character
    Open
    • Is something wrong?

    Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 20/100

    googlefonts/fontquant#4 · 2 comments ·

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