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Font Bakery Install Instructions for MacOS

Minimal install procedure:

  1. Install macOS developer tools and the homebrew package manager:

    xcode-select --install; ruby -e "$(curl -fsSL https://raw.githubusercontent.com/Homebrew/install/master/install)";

  2. Install Homebrew Python 3

    brew install python

  3. Use pip3 to install fontbakery

    pip3 install fontbakery

Upgrades

If you already installed a previous version of Font Bakery, upgrade to a newer version with:

pip3 install --upgrade fontbakery

Additional dependencies

FontForge

FontForge has some font checking features, which Font Bakery will also wrap around and run, if available. Install it with:

brew install giflib libspiro icu4c;
brew install fontforge --with-extra-tools;
Apple OS X Font Tools

Apple provides various font utilities, and ftxvalidator is especially useful as it runs the same checks that are run for users when they install a font using Font Book. Please note that the use of the OS X Font Tools application ftxvalidator requires macOS v10.13 or greater before you attempt to install the application using the instructions below.

You must use your Apple ID to sign in to http://developer.apple.com and then:

  • go to https://developer.apple.com/download/more/?=font
  • download Font_Tools_for_Xcode_9.dmg
  • double-click on Font_Tools_for_Xcode_9.dmg
  • double-click on macOS Font Tools.pkg
  • follow the instructions to install, clicking "continue", "agree", "install", etc

If you wish to run the installation process in Terminal, you can do it this way:

cd ~/Downloads/ ;
hdiutil attach osxfonttools.dmg ;
mkdir -p /tmp/ftx ;
cd /tmp/ftx ;
cp "/Volumes/OS X Font Tools/OS X Font Tools.pkg" . ;
xar -xf "OS X Font Tools.pkg" ;
cd fontTools.pkg/ ;
cat Payload | gunzip -dc | cpio -i ;
sudo mv ftx* /usr/local/bin/ ;
Microsoft Font Validator

Font Validator has useful tests for a font's glyf table. We use Hintak's fork.

  • download the latest release for your OS.
  • unzip it
  • Change the unzipped binary's permissions, chmod 755 FontValidator
  • Move the binary to your bin folder, mv /path/to/unzipped/FontValidator /usr/local/bin/FontValidator