Typophile

Editing an existing font file -- possible?

danielreeders

I’m quite new to this, so I hope you’ll forgive me asking what’s probably a really dumb question.

I have a stencil font that I quite like, but the creator went a bit crazy adding stencil lines into letters that don’t need them (such as T and K), and it feels inauthentic and distracting to read.

Is there a program I can use to edit the letter shapes embedded in the TrueType font file? Or is it only possible to completely recreate the font in curves and generate a new one?

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