How to change name of font?

Question

I want to change the PostScript name of an OTF font. I know it's possible to do this with Font Forge, but it seems like a really big deal to install this on my computer. Is there another way of doing changing the font name?

Answer 1

Its actually pretty easy to do in Font Forge. But if installing FontForge is the issue there are other, smaller, programs to the same effect.

• TTX (requires Python)

  TTX is command line and probably the easiest/smallest solution to renaming a font. There's a brief tutorial on exactly how to do that here: http://www.fontgeek.net/blog/?p=343

• Typograf

• GlyphsApp (free trial version)

• Fontographer (comparable to FontForge)