Font conversion on mac

[Rusty (Dylan Sacco)]

i have a load of .ttf font files but i can’t find out how to convert .ttf to .fnt + .png. on mac any help?

[jestelle (Josh Estelle)]

I stopped a little short of completely doing this, but this thread is helpful:

Alternative Bitmap Font Tools

Awesome info in this thread. But for this, to get otf2bdf, I had to do brew install otf2bdf This should be: bdf2bmp -s 0 font.bdf font-table-9-12.bmp (Sorry if I'm reviving an old thread – but this thread has great info and I didn't see any new info anywhere else – and figured I'd pass on these updates to the info here. I wonder if it's also worth mentioning that Font Tool.app isn't a thing anymore? If I'm correct in understanding that.)

I used otf2bdf, then bdf2bmp, to create a bitmap of a TTF font – which I think with enough fiddling I could get into Caps to turn it into a .fnt.

Let me know if you have success! And I'll reply here if I end up looking at it again too.

[Rusty (Dylan Sacco)]

ill try it tomorrow and ill let you know how it goes

[matt (gingerbeardman)]

There's currently no quick method for Mac.

Other than the command line methods, which work well but are fiddly, I don't know of any free GUI.

I'll have a go at creating a simple drag and drop tool this week.

[timhei]

There is a web based font tool called tophat made by @daniel (bepis™) on Discord. I would assume it works on Mac, and it's able to import ttf and export to fnt + png. If it doesn't work on Mac, you can always ask him on Discord to see if it can be fixed.

tophat

[jestelle (Josh Estelle)]

Nice. Worked pretty solid for me on my Mac.

[matt (gingerbeardman)]

Fantastic! Job done.

[thomastc]

For anyone who digs up this thread in the future, see also Announcing pdfontconv: a web-based conversion tool to Playdate .fnt from TTF, OTF, WOFF, WOFF2 which should work fine in Firefox and Chrome on Mac.