Installation

RetroFont depends on FontForge. For Debian based systems, the following command will install this dependency.

apt install python3-fontforge

If the software is to be installed in a virtual environment, make sure that access to system site-packages is enabled.

python -m venv --system-site-packages ~/.venv/retrofont
. ~/.venv/retrofont/bin/activate

The software is distributed via PyPI, it can be installed with pip:

pip install retrofont

From source

The source is hosted on GitHub, to install the latest development version, use the following commands.

git clone https://github.com/jfjlaros/retrofont
cd retrofont
pip install .