CHANGELOG.md

Changelog

All notable changes to this project will be documented in this file.

The format is based on Keep a Changelog, and this project adheres to Semantic Versioning.

0.26.1 - 2026-01-09

• Fix Windows compatibility by removing curses dependency. (by @seproDev)

0.26.0 - 2026-01-09

• Add Python 3.14 support.
• Improve Windows compatibility.
• Update features data. (by @seproDev in #239)
• Update axis data. (by @seproDev in #235)
• Update unicode-blocks.json and unicode-scripts.json data.
• Bump requirements and pre-commit hooks.

0.25.0 - 2025-06-11

• Add Python 3.13 support.
• Drop Python 3.8 and Python 3.9 support.
• Reset file pointer when saving to fileobject.
• Fix typing issues.
• Update unicode-blocks.json and unicode-scripts.json data.
• Bump requirements and pre-commit hooks.

0.24.0 - 2024-08-05

• Add get_svg method.
• Add is_color method.
• Improve is_monospace method accuracy by adding threshold option.
• Bump requirements.

0.23.1 - 2024-07-08

• Fix get_format with .otf fonts with CFF2 table.
• Bump requirements and pre-commit hooks

0.23.0 - 2024-06-23

• Add get_family_classification and set_family_classification methods.
• Improve slugify utility function.
• Bump requirements and pre-commit hooks.

0.22.0 - 2024-05-14

• Add is_monospace method.
• Add mypy to pre-commit.
• Fix pyproject Ruff conf warnings.
• Bump requirements and pre-commit hooks.

0.21.0 - 2024-03-07

• Add type hints.
• Add vertical metrics keys available as class properties.
• Improve code quality.
• Bump requirements and pre-commit hooks.

0.20.0 - 2024-01-29

• Add more vertical metrics: units_per_em, y_max, y_min, ascent, descent, line_gap, typo_ascender, typo_descender, typo_line_gap, cap_height, x_height, win_ascent, win_descent.

0.19.0 - 2024-01-28

• Add get_vertical_metrics and set_vertical_metrics methods. (#150)

0.18.0 - 2024-01-06

• Add sanitize method.
• Enforce keyword arguments usage.
• Use custom exceptions.

0.17.2 - 2023-12-18

• Fix possible TypeError: '<' not supported between instances of 'NoneType' and 'int'.

0.17.1 - 2023-12-18

• Add get_variable_instance_by_style_name method.
• Increase tests coverage.

0.17.0 - 2023-12-13

• Add Python 3.12 support.
• Add get_family_name / set_family_name methods.
• Add get_filename method.
• Add get_style_name / set_style_name methods.
• Add save_variable_instances method. #116
• Update rename method: rename style_flags argument to update_style_flags.
• Update save method: output font filename is generated using get_filename method when target path is a directory.
• Update to_static method: add support to update_names (default True) and update_style_flags (default True) arguments.
• Update to_static method: set italic style flag based on ital / slnt coordinates values.
• Fix get_variable_instance_closest_to_coordinates: if coordinates do not specify some axes, axes default value is used for lookup.
• Fix to_static method: prevent inplace option override.
• Use Ruff formatter instead of Black and isort.
• Bump requirements (fonttools, pillow and python-fsutil).

0.16.0 - 2023-09-19

• Add Font.from_collection class method. #49
• Allow initialisation from fontbro.Font / fontTools.ttLib.TTFont objects.
• Fix error when calling clone method on a Font object created using a fileobject. #118
• Bump requirements.

0.15.0 - 2023-08-28

• Allow instantiation with file objects. (by @fcurella in #103)
• Add save_to_file_object method. (by @fcurella in #103)
• Bump requirements (fonttools, coverage, pre-commit and tox).

0.14.15 - 2023-07-31

• Bump requirements (fonttools, pillow and tox).

0.14.14 - 2023-06-05

• Allow filepath of type pathib.Path in constructor. #83 (#84)
• Add possibility to create static instance by using style_name instead of coordinates. #82 (#85)
• Strip whitespace when slugify string.
• Move get_euclidean_distance function to fontbro.math module.
• Bump fonttools[pathops,unicode,woff] from 4.39.3 to 4.39.4. (#79)
• Update pre-commit hooks. (#80)

0.14.13 - 2023-05-02

• Fix Font Bakery error: "Verify that each group of fonts with the same nameID 1 has maximum of 4 fonts".

0.14.12 - 2023-05-02

• Fix Font Bakery error: "font name does not begin with the font family name".

0.14.11 - 2023-05-02

• Fix renaming legacy name records 1 and 2.

0.14.10 - 2023-04-24

• Revert "Fix family_name name record renaming."

0.14.9 - 2023-04-18

• Calculate Euclidean distance between dicts.

0.14.8 - 2023-04-17

• Fix family_name renaming.
• Fix tox test command.
• Replace flake8 with Ruff.
• Switch from setup.cfg to pyproject.toml.
• Bump fonttools[pathops,unicode,woff] from 4.39.2 to 4.39.3. (#68)
• Bump pillow from 9.4.0 to 9.5.0. (#71)

0.14.7 - 2023-03-24

• Improve full_name renaming using name records IDs 16 and 17. #62 (#66)

0.14.6 - 2023-03-21

• Accept axis coordinates dict with default in to_sliced_variable method. #63
• Update unique identifier name record when renaming font. #62
• Upgrade syntax for Python >= 3.8.
• Set max line length to 88.
• Add flake8-bugbear to pre-commit.
• Run flake8 also on tests files.
• Bump requirements.

0.14.5 - 2023-01-29

• Fix get_image() crash on Windows. (by @seproDev in #53)
• Correctly center text in get_image(). (by @seproDev in #53)
• Fix AttributeError in get_features(). #50 (by @seproDev in #53)
• Set unicode_name default to None. #51 (by @seproDev in #53)

0.14.4 - 2023-01-12

• Automatically update unicode data once a month.
• Update unicode-blocks.json and unicode-scripts.json data.
• Fix unformatted string in get_characters method.

0.14.3 - 2023-01-12

• Bump python-fsutil requirement.

0.14.2 - 2023-01-11

• Add ignore_blank option to get_characters and get_characters_count methods.
• Fix Pillow textsize method deprecation warning.
• Bump requirements.

0.14.1 - 2023-01-03

• Update unicode data.

0.14.0 - 2023-01-03

• Drop Python 3.7 support.
• Add setup.cfg (setuptools declarative syntax) generated using setuptools-py2cfg.
• Add pyupgrade to pre-commit config.
• Bump requirements and actions.
• Pin test requirements.

0.13.0 - 2022-12-14

• Add Python 3.11 support.
• Replace str.format with f-strings.
• Remove encoding pragma.
• Remove python setup.py test usage.
• Bump requirements and actions.

0.12.0 - 2022-10-21

• Add pre-commit.
• Add get_glyphs and get_glyphs_count methods.
• Fix PostScript name allowed characters (keep only printable ASCII subset).

0.11.2 - 2022-09-19

• Add lazy option support to constructor.
• Fix subfamily name (name ID 2) renaming (lower case -> title case).
• Fix Pillow deprecation warning.
• Update requirements.

0.11.1 - 2022-07-05

• Updated rename for generating the full_name combining family_name and subfamily_name.

0.11.0 - 2022-06-30

• Added set_style_flags_by_subfamily_name method.
• Added style_flags=True option to rename method.
• Updated get_features_tags method for checking also the GPOS table.

0.10.4 - 2022-06-29

• Improved renaming according to RIBBI.

0.10.3 - 2022-06-29

• Fixed rename subfamily name when there are Regular and Italic in the same name.

0.10.2 - 2022-06-28

• Fixed style flags on save according to subfamily name.

0.10.1 - 2022-06-28

• Improved renaming according to RIBBI.
• Fixed rename subfamily name error.

0.10.0 - 2022-06-28

• Improved renaming according to RIBBI.
• Updated style flags on save according to subfamily name.

0.9.1 - 2022-06-07

• Updated subset default options.

0.9.0 - 2022-06-07

• Added possibility to pass subsetter options via kwargs in subset method.
• Updated docstrings.

0.8.0 - 2022-05-08

• Added clone method.
• Added get_fingerprint_match method.
• Added get_version method.
• Removed match method.

0.7.0 - 2022-04-29

• Added get_fingerprint method.
• Added get_image method.
• Added get_italic_angle method.
• Added match method.
• Refactored get_weight and get_width methods.
• Updated unicode blocks and scripts data.
• Updated requirements.

0.6.0 - 2022-02-21

• Added close method.
• Added possibility to use Font class as context manager.

0.5.0 - 2022-01-26

• Improved subset unicodes arg to support also list of int codepoints.
• Moved features and unicode data to json files.
• Moved parse_unicodes to the subset module and made it a public re-usable function.
• Updated python-fsutil requirement version to 0.6.0.

0.4.0 - 2022-01-12

• Added more informations to characters returned by get_characters method.
• Added get_unicode_block_by_name and get_unicode_script_by_name methods.
• Improved subset unicodes parsing.
• Renamed uni module to unicodedata.

0.3.0 - 2022-01-11

• Added get_unicode_blocks method.
• Added get_unicode_scripts method.
• Changed get_name and set_name to read/write both Mac and Windows IDs.
• Fixed hardcoded class name in __str__ method.
• Fixed setup.py warning and updated to tox configuration.
• Removed get_scripts method.
• Removed get_scripts_by_characters class method.
• Replaced single quotes ' with double quotes " (Black formatting).

0.2.3 - 2021-12-09

• Added get_scripts_by_characters class method.
• Fixed TypeError raised on save after renaming.
• Fixed get_name and set_name langID parameter.
• Improved subset unicodes string parsing.
• Replaced Travis CI with Github Workflow.
• Formatted code with Black.

0.2.2 - 2021-11-25

• Fixed rename method to raise a ValueError when the computed PostScript name exceeds the allowed max-length (63).
• Fixed to_sliced_variable when axes coordinates are passed as dict doesn't contain 'min' or 'max' keys.
• Changed get_variable_axes and get_variable_instances returned dicts keys from camelCase to snake_keys.
• Changed get_variable_instances method return value.
• Reduced return calls in get_format method.
• Improved tests.

0.2.1 - 2021-11-19

• Fixed width axis tag name.

0.2.0 - 2021-11-19

• Added get_features_tags method.
• Added get_style_flag and set_style_flag methods.
• Added support to 'condensed', 'extended' and 'shadow' style flags.
• Added rename method.

0.1.0 - 2021-11-18

• Released python-fontbro.