figma linux font helper

figma-linux-font-helper

Figma Linux Font Helper

Why

A fellow friend of mine was switching to Linux, and needed the Local fonts support for Figma

How

This project was a reverse engineer from the local font helper from Figma for App, it uses fc-list, and fc-cache for the fonts lists, and python for the webserver

How to use it

• Install Python3 and Pip3 (Pip for Python3)
• Run sudo pip3 install -r requirements.txt
• Run python3 server.py
• Navigate to figma.com and try to use the local fonts.

Docker-compose

You can also use docker-compose in order to run it as a container, simply run docker-compose up and let docker do it's magic

There's also a environment variable in the compose file, called FONTS_FOLDER, use this variable if your font folder is mapped somewhere else, for example, on OSX you might want to use FONT_FOLDER=~/Library/Fonts docker-compose up

Rename .env.example to .env to define a custom value to FONTS_FOLDER before build your containers with docker-compose.

Big Thanks

Big Thanks to the following contributors for improving this project! (NOT sorted by order of importance)

• arpanetus
• aanpilov
• marcosfreitas
• Wayne Steidley
• misotrnka