FEA Converter

Extract text from AFDKO feature definitions (FEA)


Drop or upload your .FEA file
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How to extract text from your FEA file

  1. Click the "Select File" button above, and choose your FEA file.
  2. You’ll see a preview, if available.
  3. Click the "Convert file to..." button to extract text information.

Convert FEA to another file type

To convert FEA Feature definitions to another format, you need AFDKO or other Font software.

Convert a file to FEA

To convert other file formats to the "OpenType Feature Script" file type, you need software like AFDKO or a similar tool.


About FEA files

The .FEA file format is a plain text developer document used to store OpenType layout features. Type designers use it to program typographic rules like kerning, ligatures, and alternate glyph substitutions. You can open and compile these files using the Adobe Font Development Kit for OpenType or professional font editors like FontForge and Glyphs. The main disadvantage of the .FEA format is that it is strictly a source code file. It does not contain actual font shapes or outlines, and you cannot install it on an operating system like a standard font. Because it is highly specialized plain text, traditional media converters often fail to process it. Users typically need to convert it to TXT to read the code, or compile it alongside drawing data to generate a working OTF or TTF font. Standard online converters fail to process it because it lacks graphical data.

Convert.Guru analyzes your FEA file, detects the exact format, and lets you read the text inside.


FAQ

If you want to convert FEA file to CSV, JSON, XML, YAML, YML, TOML, INI, CFG, CONF, DAT, DB or SQL, you can use AFDKO or similar software from the "OpenType Font Feature Definition" category. In the File menu, look for Save As… or Export….

To convert DBF, XML, SQLITE, XLSX, SQL, TSV, ACCDB, YAML, MDB, CSV, ODS or JSON files to FEA, try AFDKO or another comparable tool in the "OpenType Font Feature Definition" category.



The FEA Converter Story

The history of Convert.Guru began over 25 years ago in California with Tom Simondi’s file-format database. A former contributor to Space Shuttle development and a software pioneer of the 1980s, Simondi established a trusted resource for file type analysis that was even referenced by Microsoft Windows XP. Today, we use modern technology to process and convert thousands of file formats while continually improving our FEA converter.