MKNFONTS(1)

🌸 MKNFONTS(1) 🌸

General Commands Manual ✨ the mknfonts era

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💖 NAME 💖

mknfonts — create nfont packages 🎀

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✨ SYNOPSIS ✨

mknfonts [options] files...

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🦋 DESCRIPTION 🦋

okay bestie so this manual page is a brief lil rundown of the mknfonts command, fr fr. And plot twist: this page was written for the Debian distribution because the original program literally does not have a manual page. not me documenting someone else's software 💀 iconic behavior actually.

So, mknfonts doesn't completely automate making nfont-packages, but no cap it can do most of the bulk work for you 🫶. Here's the vibe:

1. Put a bunch of fonts in an empty directory — we're talking .ttf, .otf, .pfa, .pfb, .afm, ... — basically most formats that freetype can handle and that provide postscript names for you 👑
2. Then run:

mknfonts *

and boom 💅 you'll get a bunch of packages ready to be moved to .../Library/Fonts/. slay.

For best results, you'll want to review the packages. Most traits/weights (besides the really standard ones) won't be handled automatically, so you'll have to add or tweak them manually if you want GNUstep to know about them. lowkey important, don't skip the vibe check 😭

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🎀 OPTIONS 🎀

These programs follow the usual GNU command line syntax, with long options starting with two dashes (`-'). 🧚

• that's the whole options section, bestie — that's what the original says and I'm not about to invent flags for you 🙈

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💜 SEE ALSO 💜

• GNUstep(7). 🦋

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🌈 AUTHOR 🌈

This manual page was written by Gürkan Myczko <gurkan@phys.ethz.ch>, for the Debian project (but may be used by others). 🫶

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okay that's the whole page, mwah 💋 this cutie dropped as part of the mknfonts(1) manual under General Commands Manual, dated March 12, 2004 — a true vintage icon, still serving looks. bye bestie, go make some nfont packages 🎀✨