glyphspack

glyphspack converts between the .glyphs and .glyphspackage file format flavors of the Glyphs font editor.

Usage

Convert between .glyphs and .glyphspackage files:

$ glyphspack SomeFont.glyphspackage
Unpacking SomeFont.glyphspackage into SomeFont.glyphs
$ glyphspack OtherFont.glyphs
Packing OtherFont.glyphs into OtherFont.glyphspackage

Write the contents to the standard output:

$ glyphspack -fo /dev/stdout SomeFont.glyphspackage

Options:

• Set the output file name with -o/--out.
• Overwrite any existing files with -f/--force.
• Suppress log messages with -q/--quiet.

Run with --help for a complete parameter description.

Installation

glyphspack can be installed from source with cargo:

$ cargo install glyphspack

The releases page provides pre-build executables for macOS (universal binary, works with both Apple silicon and Intel), Linux (x64 64 bit), and Windows (x64 64 bit).

Alternatives

• In Glyphs, save a file to a different format with File → Save As… → File Format.
• A similar tool written in Python is glyphspkg.

License

Licensed under either of

• Apache License, Version 2.0 (LICENSE-APACHE or http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0)
• MIT license (LICENSE-MIT or http://opensource.org/licenses/MIT)

at your option.

Contribution

Unless you explicitly state otherwise, any contribution intentionally submitted for inclusion in the work by you, as defined in the Apache-2.0 license, shall be dual licensed as above, without any additional terms or conditions.