font-proof-mcp

Create and modify Font Proof documents programmatically. Font Proof is a macOS app for type designers that generates PDF font proofs and live-reloads them from Glyphs.app.

This package launches the MCP server that ships inside the Font Proof app bundle. The server lets AI tools create and edit .fontproof documents directly; the app does not need to be running.

Requirements

• macOS 12 or later
• Font Proof installed (the server binary ships inside the app)
• Node.js 18+ (for npx)

Setup

The easiest path is Font Proof's built-in one-click setup: open Font Proof, go to Preferences, then AI Integration, and click the installer for your client. To set it up manually instead:

Claude Code

claude mcp add font-proof -- npx -y font-proof-mcp

Claude Desktop

Add to ~/Library/Application Support/Claude/claude_desktop_config.json:

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "font-proof": {
      "command": "npx",
      "args": ["-y", "font-proof-mcp"]
    }
  }
}

Cursor

Add the same command / args pair to ~/.cursor/mcp.json.

If Font Proof is installed somewhere other than /Applications or ~/Applications, set FONT_PROOF_MCP_PATH to the full path of Font Proof.app/Contents/Helpers/font-proof-mcp.

Tools

• Documents: create_proof, create_complete_proof, open_proof, get_proof_info, open_in_app
• Sections: add_section, update_section, delete_section, reorder_sections, duplicate_section, set_section_content_bulk, update_section_settings
• Fonts: add_fonts, remove_fonts, list_system_fonts (variable font axes supported)
• Glyphs 3: list_glyphs_fonts, add_glyphs_fonts

Full documentation: fontproof.com/docs under "MCP Server".

How it works

The MCP server is a Swift binary embedded in the Font Proof app at Contents/Helpers/font-proof-mcp, codesigned with the app and always in sync with the app's document format. This package is a thin launcher: it finds that binary and hands over stdio. No server logic is duplicated here, so the tools you get always match the app version you have installed.

Font Proof is made by Minim Industries.