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