FontOps

V1.1.0

The in-editor font pipeline for Unity — browse, install, organise, and audit your type system without ever leaving the editor.

Free fonts from three catalogs. One-click install. Live previews. Licensing on every card. Palettes, compliance audits, and a visual font picker — all in one tool window.

Commercial-safe by default: OFL / Apache / MIT / UFL only.

At a glance

What	Details
3 font providers	Google Fonts · Fontshare (OSS) · Fontsource — combined ~3,000+ unique families, all OFL/Apache/MIT/UFL
One-click install	No browser. No ZIP archive. TTF lands in your configured folder, auto-generates a TMP_FontAsset + SDF atlas if enabled
Cross-source dedup	ALL view collapses the same family across catalogs and shows a multi-source badge (e.g. `GF + FSRC`)
Font Palettes	ScriptableObjects with named roles (Heading, Body, Caption, Button, …) — every TMP component pulls from one source of truth
Font Picker (new)	A small search button (🔍) beside every `TMP_FontAsset` field — pick from palette roles, installed fonts, or one-click catalog installs with favorites, previews, and pagination, each typeset in its own face
Compliance Checker	Audits every text component in scenes + prefabs against a palette, with inline IGNORE / RESTORE
Font Scanner	Project-wide font discovery, duplicate detection (MD5), source classification, missing-TMP-asset alerts
Palette-less general audit	Run a usage/quality report with no palette assigned — surfaces installed-but-unused families and placeholder flags
Licensing on every card	Canonical license label (OFL 1.1, Apache 2.0, MIT, UFL 1.0) sourced from authoritative endpoints — never guessed
Zero boilerplate	All runtime components (`FontPaletteApplier`, `FontComplianceIgnore`) are drop-in MonoBehaviours

Providers at a glance

Provider	Catalog size	License filter	Delivery	API key
Google Fonts	~1,700 families	OFL / Apache / UFL	Per-variant TTF from Google CDN	Optional — higher rate limit
Fontshare (OSS)	~150 families	OFL only (ITF FFL rejected at ingest)	Per-family ZIP → extracted + cached	Not needed
Fontsource	2,077 families (GF superset + 126 unique)	OFL / Apache / MIT / UFL	Per-variant TTF from jsDelivr	Not needed

FontOps ships integrations only for providers with a documented JSON/REST API. If your team relies on a different foundry, you can install its fonts manually and FontOps' scanner + palette system will still pick them up.

Features

🗂 Providers

Browse + install from Google Fonts, Fontshare, and Fontsource. Cross-source dedup, live previews, per-font licensing.

🎨 Font Palettes

Define typographic roles once. Every TMP component pulls from the palette — no more hand-tuning sizes per object.

✨ Font Picker (new)

Click the small search button (🔍) beside any TMP_FontAsset field. Pick from palette roles, installed fonts, or one-click catalog installs — each typeset in its own face.

✔ Compliance Checker

Scan scenes + prefabs. Flag anything that doesn't follow your palette. Inline IGNORE / RESTORE on every component.

✨ Palette Extractor

Scan existing fonts, get AI-assisted role-name suggestions, and build a palette from your project's current typography.

🚀 Getting Started

Configure settings, optionally add a Google Fonts API key, and create your first palette — all in under five minutes.

Video Tutorials

▶ Promo Video

Feature overview trailer showcasing FontOps in action.

▶ Initial Setup

Set up your API key and import TextMeshPro essentials.

▶ Quick Start

Full tutorial: download fonts, create a palette, and run your first audit.

Quick Start

Open Tools → FontOps — launches the editor window.
(Optional) Add a Google Fonts API key — Settings → Google Fonts API. Unlocks higher rate limits; Fontshare and Fontsource don't need any key.
Browse and install — use the source pills (ALL / GOOGLE FONTS / FONTSHARE / FONTSOURCE), pick a font, hit ↓ INSTALL.
Create a Font Palette — Assets → Create → FontOps → Font Palette. Five default roles ship out of the box.
Assign fonts to roles — Header, Body, Caption, Button, or any custom role you add.
Run a compliance audit — Tools → Text Auditor → SCAN PROJECT. Anything off-palette gets a flag.
(Optional) Use the Font Picker — on any TextMeshPro component, click the small magnifying-glass button beside the Font Asset field to assign a font visually.

What's in the box

Runtime components

FontPaletteAsset — the palette ScriptableObject. Holds a list of FontRoleEntry with font, size, style, spacing, and colour per role.
FontPaletteApplier — MonoBehaviour that reads a role from a palette and pushes it onto the sibling TMP_Text. Per-property toggles for font, size, style, colour, spacing.
FontComplianceIgnore — mark a GameObject to be skipped by the compliance audit with an optional reason string.

Editor tools

FontOps window (Tools → FontOps) — all browsing, installing, palette editing, auditing, and scanning lives here.
Inline Font Picker — a small search button beside every TMP_FontAsset field; searchable popup of palette roles, installed fonts, and one-click catalog installs. See Font Picker.
Font Scanner — project-wide discovery, duplicate detection, missing-TMP alerts, ignore list.
Text Auditor — hierarchy-based compliance scan, prefab override tracking, inline actions.
Palette Extractor — scan project fonts + build a palette with AI-assisted role naming.
Custom Asset Store exporter (Tools → FontOps → Export) — ships Samples~ contents that Unity's built-in exporter can't.

Requirements

Dependency	Minimum Version	Notes
Unity	2022.3 LTS	Works on all newer LTS + Unity 6
TextMeshPro	3.0.6	Required. Absorbed into `com.unity.ugui` in Unity 6 — still works
Newtonsoft Json	3.2.1	Bundled automatically by UPM; no manual install

Licensing posture

FontOps will never surface a font whose license forbids redistribution. The provider ingest layers filter down to OFL 1.1, Apache 2.0, MIT, and UFL 1.0 only. Every card shows its canonical license label (read from authoritative endpoints, never scraped from human-facing HTML), and every install drops the license file alongside the TTF.