The Adobe Font Development Kit for OpenType, also known as Adobe FDKO or simply AFDKO, is a font development kit (FDK),
a
set
Set, The Set, SET or SETS may refer to:
Science, technology, and mathematics Mathematics
*Set (mathematics), a collection of elements
*Category of sets, the category whose objects and morphisms are sets and total functions, respectively
Electro ...
of
command-line tools freely distributed by
Adobe
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for editing and verifying
OpenType font
In metal typesetting, a font is a particular size, weight and style of a typeface. Each font is a matched set of type, with a piece (a "sort") for each glyph. A typeface consists of a range of such fonts that shared an overall design.
In mod ...
s. It does not offer a
glyph
A glyph () is any kind of purposeful mark. In typography, a glyph is "the specific shape, design, or representation of a character". It is a particular graphical representation, in a particular typeface, of an element of written language. A g ...
editor, but focuses on tools for manipulating font metrics,
kerning and other
OpenType features. AFDKO runs on Microsoft Windows,
Linux and macOS, and licensed under the
Apache License.
References
;General
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Ken Lunde
Ken Roger Lunde (, born 12 August 1965 in Madison, Wisconsin)Lunde, 2008. is an American specialist in information processing for East Asian languages.
Academic Background
Ken majored in linguistics at University of Wisconsin–Madison in 1985, w ...
, ''CJKV Information Processing'', Edition 2, O'Reilly Media, 2008, , pp. 447–450
External links
AFDKO– Official GitHub repository
Typophile page on Adobe FDK
Font Development Kit
Graphics libraries
Typography software
Font editors
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