Is there a font/typeface designing program that is available for Windows or Linux that supports creation of variable fonts and OpenType features?

Submitted ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩ by ⁨ryujin470@fedia.io⁩ to ⁨nostupidquestions@lemmy.world⁩

And not just for Mac OS.

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Theoriginalthon@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago
Fontforge and inkscape? I’ve never gone deep in to it before, but an inkscape wiki page does reference export to font forge as an svg

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Toes@ani.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago
So, this is out of my element. But does Inkscape work for you?

I found this page where some people are talking about it.

wiki.inkscape.org/wiki/Variable_Fonts_support

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FriendOfDeSoto@startrek.website ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago
Maybe 10 years ago I tried designing a font in Inkscape. It was possible but more of a gimmick. I then installed Fontforge and very quickly decided I wasn’t going to learn how to use it, didn’t have the bandwidth. But the tools are there. Both methods have a learning curve but I think have enough instruction resources online.

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