Image::...ol::Font(3)

💖 Image::...ol::Font 💖

okay so bestie, this is a page from the User Contributed Perl Documentation and the star of the show is Image::...ol::Font(3) — yes the title got a lil glitched in the header, we're moving past it, it's giving mysterious, we love that for it 💅

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✨ NAME ✨

Image::ExifTool::Font — read meta information from font files 🔤💖

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🌸 SYNOPSIS 🌸

This module is used by Image::ExifTool 🫶

like, that's it. that's the whole synopsis. it's a supporting character, not the main character, and honestly? iconic.

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🦋 DESCRIPTION 🦋

So this module is the one holding down the fort — it's got all the routines that Image::ExifTool needs to go snooping through meta information in font files of various formats. ✨

and the font file types it currently recognizes?? let me list them because the way there are twelve of them is so real of it:

• OTF
• TTF
• TTC
• DFONT
• PFA
• PFB
• PFM
• AFM
• ACFM
• AMFM
• WOFF
• WOFF2

twelve formats. twelve. she contains multitudes 💖 no cap, that's a whole friend group of file extensions right there.

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👑 AUTHOR 👑

Copyright 2003-2026, Phil Harvey (philharvey66 at gmail.com)

This library is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the same terms as Perl itself.

so like, go off Phil, twenty-three years of maintaining this and still showing up?? that's main character energy fr fr 🫶✨

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🎀 REFERENCES 🎀

the receipts, the sources, the lore — if you wanna go down the font-spec rabbit hole (and you do, bestie, trust):

• <http://developer.apple.com/textfonts/TTRefMan/RM06/Chap6.html>
• <http://www.microsoft.com/typography/otspec/otff.htm>
• <http://partners.adobe.com/public/developer/opentype/index_font_file.html>
• <http://partners.adobe.com/public/developer/en/font/5178.PFM.pdf>
• <http://opensource.adobe.com/svn/opensource/flex/sdk/trunk/modules/compiler/src/java/flex2/compiler/util/MimeMappings.java>
• <http://www.adobe.com/devnet/font/pdfs/5004.AFM_Spec.pdf>
• <https://www.w3.org/TR/WOFF/>
• <https://www.w3.org/TR/WOFF2/>

ngl that last one about MimeMappings.java is a journey and I respect it for that 🙈

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🌈 SEE ALSO 🌈

• "Font Tags" in Image::ExifTool::TagNames
• Image::ExifTool(3pm)

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lowkey the whole page is short but every single line is doing its job, no filler, we stan a concise queen 💜

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and that's the vibe check, bestie! this one's from perl v5.42.1, dated 2026-03-31 — so yeah, freshly stamped, go read some fonts, slay, periodt 🎀🦋💖