PyRank
fonttools

fonttools

A library to manipulate font files from Python.
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fonttools has 250M monthly downloads and 5K GitHub stars. Version 4.63.0 supports Python 3.10+, first published in 2013.

It is actively maintained under a permissive license, last released in May 2026.

It is used by 896 tracked packages, including matplotlib, weasyprint and fpdf2.

GitHub topics include fonts and opentype.

Downloads
Day
7.1M
Week
56.1M
Month
250.0M
Stars
5.2K
Forks
526
Issues
339
Version
4.63.0

Package Insights

What's this?
Score breakdown - each component scores 0-100, weighted by percentage
Maintenance
100
Popularity
79
Adoption
70
Community
80
Provenance
100
How the maintenance status was determined
Last commit
5 days ago
Monthly downloads
249,991,605
• Active
Activity within 30 days
Stable
Activity within 31-180 days
Minimal
Activity within 181-365 days, or no activity data
At Risk
No activity for > 365 days, but > 10,000 monthly downloads
Archived
Repository flagged as archived on GitHub
How the popularity category was determined
Monthly downloads
249,991,605
Stars
5,155
Stars per 1k downloads
0.02
• Industry Standard
> 10,000,000 monthly downloads
Hidden Gem
< 0.5 stars per 1k downloads and > 100,000 monthly downloads
Community Favorite
> 5 stars per 1k downloads
Rising Star
Balanced ratio of stars to downloads
Unknown
Fewer than 1,000 monthly downloads, or no star data
How download momentum is calculated
Week daily avg
8,020,765
Month daily avg
8,333,054
Momentum
-3.7%
((week_daily_avg - month_daily_avg) / month_daily_avg) * 100
Python version support tiers
requires_python
>=3.10
Cutting Edge
Minimum supported version is 3.12 or newer
• Modern
Minimum supported version is 3.9, 3.10, or 3.11
Legacy
Supports 3.8 or older (or Python 2)
Unknown
No requires_python specified or unparseable
License categories
License
MIT
• Permissive
MIT, Apache, BSD, ISC, Unlicense, CC0, etc.
Copyleft
GPL, LGPL, AGPL, MPL, EPL, etc.
Proprietary
Commercial, all rights reserved, custom EULAs
Unknown
No license specified, or none of the above match
How the release cadence was determined
Last release
54 days ago
Total releases
213
Releases/year
17.0
• Rapid
Last release within 365 days and > 12 releases/year
Regular
Last release within 365 days
Slow
Last release 366-730 days ago
Stalled
Last release > 730 days ago, or no releases
Unknown
No usable release date available
How contributor risk was determined
Contributors
142
Monthly downloads
249,991,605
High Load
≤ 2 contributors and ≥ 50,000 monthly downloads
Moderate Load
< 10 contributors and ≥ 500,000 monthly downloads
Low Load
< 25 contributors and ≥ 5,000,000 monthly downloads, or sole maintainer with ≥ 10,000 monthly downloads
• Balanced
Enough contributors for the package's popularity
Unknown
No contributor data available
Engagement
85
 
Issue Burden
65.8
per 1k stars
Discussions
25.6
per 1k stars
Fork Ratio
27.0%
contrib / forks
Stale Release
No
 
PR Velocity
Active
 

Weekly Downloads

GitHub Stars

Not all downloads include detailed metadata. Breakdowns reflect the subset that does.

Downloads by OS

Linux 4.8M
Windows 224.5K
macOS 96.5K

Python Versions

3.13
32.9% 1.5M
3.12
25.4% 1.2M
3.11
18.1% 838.7K
3.10
16.5% 767.8K
3.9
7.1% 331.3K

Top Countries

1. US US
4.0M
2. SG SG
160.6K
3. DE DE
127.6K
4. GB GB
117.4K
5. IE IE
112.1K
6. IN IN
76.3K
7. CN CN
69.8K
8. JP JP
59.4K
9. NL NL
58.6K
10. KR KR
37.2K
GitHub Topics
Tags from the package's GitHub repository describing what it does.

Package Information

License
MIT
First Release
December 16, 2013
Last Release
1 month ago
Last Commit
6 days ago
Latest Version
4.63.0
Total Releases
213
Contributors
142
Open PRs
73
Archived
No
Author
Just van Rossum
Python Versions
3 3.10 3.11 3.12 3.13 3.14
Wheels
cp310 cp311 cp312 cp313 cp314 cp38 cp39 py2 py3
Tracking Since
January 6, 2026
Data Updated
July 5, 2026
Data Freshness
Fresh

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