Knut Nergaard

Allow `BaseGlyph.name = None`

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Once a value has been set, `BaseGlyph.name` limits the input type to `str` and does not allow for the value to be reset to `None`. Would this be possible to...

Add type annotations to `fontshell`.

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Includes: - annotation of all `fontshell` modules - related fixes in base classes

These return `Optional[BaseImage]` and `RImage` respectively. Should both or neither accept `None` as a possible return value?

These return `BaseImage` and `None` respectively.

@benkiel b0efc7110a501898beb75f41eb16a8042ea49416 results in the folllowing `mypy` errors: ```zsh glyph.py:2903: error: Argument 1 to "list" has incompatible type "set[tuple[Optional[str], int]]"; expected "Iterable[str]" [arg-type] glyph.py:2908: error: Argument 1 to "list" has...

@benkiel I know this wasn't on the list of needed improvements, but I couldn't see why not, and so I just did it anyway. The examples here are in a...

Implement Rust-based UFO reader/writer

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I'm dealing with a lot of large fonts, which makes working with a relatively slow Python-based UFO backend slightly annoying. Any reason why defcon hasn't adopted [this](https://github.com/madig/readwrite-ufo-glif/tree/main) or something similar,...