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Werner Lemberg’s ‘ttfautohint’ 0.7 as an OS X Service

Werner Lem­berg is devel­op­ing a novel auto-​hinter for TrueType fonts. It is based on the Free­Type rasterizer.

To make it easy for typeface design­ers to test the cap­ab­il­it­ies of ttfauto­hint I have cre­ated a self-​contained Ser­vice for OS X. Please note that ttfauto­hint is pre-​release soft­ware and should not be used for pro­duc­tion pur­poses. Please note that ttfauto­hint is released under the GNU GENERAL PUBLIC LICENSE, Ver­sion 2.

Just un-​zip and double-​click the ttfauto­hint file. OS X will prompt you to either edit or install the Ser­vice; choose install. Done.

Use it by right-​clicking on one or more TTFs, then choose ttfauto­hint from within the Ser­vices menu-​item. The Ser­vice will now start auto-​hinting the fonts and save them in the same folder under new names in the style of foo.AH.ttf.

There have been some reports of prob­lems installing and run­ning this Ser­vice in ver­sions of OS X earlier than 10.7. If you run into trouble try manu­ally pla­cing the Ser­vice in ~/​Library/​Services/​, and if that folder does not exist, cre­ate it first.

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I am Claus Eggers Sørensen. I recieved a BDes from The Ger­rit Rietveld Academie in Ams­ter­dam, The Neth­er­lands, and a Mas­ter of Arts in Typeface Design at The Depart­ment of Typo­graphy & Graphic Com­mu­nic­a­tion, The Uni­ver­sity of Read­ing. You can find the spe­ci­men of my gradu­ation typeface design Markant, and an essay going into some detail about it here.

I have a back­ground in graphic design and com­mer­cial art dir­ec­tion. Though of Dan­ish nation­al­ity, I am cur­rently liv­ing and work­ing in Ams­ter­dam. I can be con­tac­ted via email es@​forthehearts.​net or on Dutch mobile phone +31 655 530 520. You are wel­come to fol­low me on Twit­ter.

I hope to be able to spend more time expand­ing the inform­a­tion on Font​Stand​ards​.org, a wiki ded­ic­ated to the doc­u­ment­a­tion of ‘best prac­tices’ in font production.