Getting the Glyph Name from a TTF or OTF font file

Question

Hi anyone know how to get the Glyph Name from a TTF or OFT font file from C#, I'm willing to parse the file directly to get them if necessary? I found this post here Access opentype glyph names from WPF but it got no answer.

PS I have created the font myself and am creating an program to create a CSS (LESS or SASS) file to use the Glyphs I have made easily in web pages like Bootstrap or FontAwesome :)

Answer 1

In TrueType-based fonts (.TTF files), you can try parsing the 'post' table . It's fairly easy to figure out. But , only format 2.0 explicitly stores glyph names. If the post table is format 3.0, there are no glyph names stored (there are a couple of other formats defined, but fonts using them are very, very rare). In that case, your only option is to back-track using Unicode values from the 'cmap'...there are some standard references for Unicode-to-glyph names that may be useful.

For CFF-based fonts (.OTF files), glyph names are stored inside of the 'CFF ' table . That's a bit trickier to parse, but if you're only looking for the glyph name references it shouldn't be too difficult to figure out.