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+# Font Helper for Karlos
+
+## Features
+- take images containing several chars and break them down into individual images
+  - images containing several consecutive characters in 2D arrangement
+  - images containing several arbitrary characters in 1D arrangement
+  - images containing a single character
+- build a font automatically out of these individual images
+  - sequential chars are automatically grouped
+
+## Example
+run `cargo run -- example/index.json`