hellbox-metadata

A hellbox plugin for updating font metadata using fonttools.

Usage

from hellbox import Hellbox
from hellbox.jobs.metadata import SetNames

with Hellbox("build") as task:
    task.read("build/*.ttf") >> SetNames(
        copyright="© 2024 My Foundry",
        version="Version 1.000",
        vendor_url="https://myfoundry.com",
        license_url="https://myfoundry.com/license",
    ) >> task.write("release")

SetNames updates all existing platform records for each field and adds a Windows Unicode record if none is present.

Supported fields

Keyword	nameID	Description
copyright	0	Copyright notice
family	1	Family name
subfamily	2	Subfamily name
unique_id	3	Unique font identifier
full_name	4	Full font name
version	5	Version string
postscript_name	6	PostScript name
trademark	7	Trademark
manufacturer	8	Manufacturer name
designer	9	Designer
description	10	Description
vendor_url	11	Vendor URL
designer_url	12	Designer URL
license	13	License description
license_url	14	License info URL

Installation

hell add hellbox-metadata

Development

uv sync
uv run pytest