Saving¶

As a complement to loading, mcfonts also implements support for saving fonts back to other formats.

Although loading only support Minecraft fonts right now, saving supports many more formats.

Table 1 Complexity overview¶
Characters	OpenType	Unihex	YAFF	Minecraft
1	0.7 ms	0.033 ms	0.004 ms	0.28 ms
10	0.8 ms	0.075 ms	0.06 ms	0.457 ms
100	8.5 ms	1.42 ms	2.4 ms	2.8 ms
1,000	92.8 ms	14.5 ms	31 ms	34 ms
10,000	830 ms	154 ms	260 ms	280 ms

Complexity tends to be linear with respect to the number of providers. Each provider has its own complexity.

Minecraft¶

Save the font in Minecraft: Java Edition format.

Note

Reference providers are not saved - their targets are saved in their place.

Save the font to an OpenType font.

The result will have an em size of 1024 (configurable via EM_SIZE). Glyphs are stored in a GLYF format.

Warning

Not all OpenType features/tables are supported, like ligatures, LOCL, colors.

Save the font to a GNU Unihex-compatible format.

By default, glyphs which don't fit cleanly as a unihex glyph will have naïve scaling.

Save the font to a YAFF format.