Welcome to RoboFab

RoboFab is a Python library with objects that deal with data usually associated with fonts and type design. RoboFab reads and writes UFO font files and works in any Python 2.3 (and 2.2.1), as well as in FontLab 4.6 and up.

This site

• Download: Download RoboFab installers
• RoboFab Getting Started: simple stuff
• Glossary: index of words and terminology.
• How To: A couple of cases and examples
• Links: Relevant links for RoboFab
• Objects: Overview of the objects, their methods and attributes
• RoboFab Shop: Buy special scripts, packages, swag.
• RoboFab Tools: overview of the tools and miscellaneous code.
• UFO: About the UFO tools

Object Model

Here is a handy map of the RoboFab objects.

The Developers

RoboFab is developed and maintained by Tal Leming, Erik van Blokland, Just van Rossum (in no particular order)

Contact

Email the RoboFab Consortium at
i n f o (at) r o b o f a b (dot) o r g

Copyrights

The package is copyrighted by the RoboFab developers and can only be used with the permission of the developers. See the legal note.. RoboFab is built in Python. Parts of RoboFab use fontTools, an OpenSource font toolkit by Just van Rossum. Parts of the RoboFab library are built to work with code from FontLab, which is a product of Pyrus Inc. Parts of RoboFab implement the Property List file format in XML, copyright Apple Computer. Parts of RoboFab implement tables and names from PostScript and the OpenType FDK, copyright Adobe.