diff --git a/scripts/get-fonts.py b/scripts/get-fonts.py
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+#!/usr/bin/env python3
+# This script downloads several built fonts from repos of https://github.com/notofonts
+# Additional fonts can be found on https://notofonts.github.io
+
+import os
+import requests
+import tempfile
+import shutil
+import warnings
+import zipfile
+
+FONTDIR = os.environ.get("FONTDIR", "./fonts")
+
+try:
+    os.mkdir(FONTDIR)
+except FileExistsError:
+    warnings.warn("Font directory already exists")
+
+# Fonts available in regular, bold, and italic
+REGULAR_BOLD_ITALIC = ["NotoSans"]
+
+# Fonts available in regular and bold
+REGULAR_BOLD = [
+    "NotoSansAdlamUnjoined",
+    "NotoSansArabicUI",
+    "NotoSerifArmenian",
+    "NotoSansBalinese",
+    "NotoSansBamum",
+    "NotoSansBengaliUI",
+    "NotoSansCanadianAboriginal",
+    "NotoSansCham",
+    "NotoSansCherokee",
+    "NotoSansDevanagariUI",
+    "NotoSansEthiopic",
+    "NotoSansGeorgian",
+    "NotoSansGujaratiUI",
+    "NotoSansGurmukhiUI",
+    "NotoSansHebrew",
+    "NotoSansJavanese",
+    "NotoSansKannadaUI",
+    "NotoSansKayahLi",
+    "NotoSansKhmerUI",
+    "NotoSansLaoUI",
+    "NotoSansLisu",
+    "NotoSansMalayalamUI",
+    "NotoSansMyanmarUI",
+    "NotoSansOlChiki",
+    "NotoSansOriya",
+    "NotoSansSinhalaUI",
+    "NotoSansSundanese",
+    "NotoSansSymbols",
+    "NotoSansTaiTham",
+    "NotoSansTamilUI",
+    "NotoSansTeluguUI",
+    "NotoSansThaana",
+    "NotoSansThaiUI",
+    "NotoSerifTibetan",
+]
+
+# Fonts with regular and black, but no bold
+REGULAR_BLACK = ["NotoSansSyriac"]
+
+# Fonts only available in regular
+REGULAR = [
+    "NotoSansBatak",
+    "NotoSansBuginese",
+    "NotoSansBuhid",
+    "NotoSansChakma",
+    "NotoSansCoptic",
+    "NotoSansHanunoo",
+    "NotoSansLepcha",
+    "NotoSansLimbu",
+    "NotoSansMandaic",
+    "NotoSansMongolian",
+    "NotoSansNewTaiLue",
+    "NotoSansNKo",
+    "NotoSansOsage",
+    "NotoSansOsmanya",
+    "NotoSansSamaritan",
+    "NotoSansSaurashtra",
+    "NotoSansShavian",
+    "NotoSansSymbols2",
+    "NotoSansTagalog",
+    "NotoSansTagbanwa",
+    "NotoSansTaiLe",
+    "NotoSansTaiViet",
+    "NotoSansTifinagh",
+    "NotoSansVai",
+    "NotoSansYi",
+]
+
+SOUTH_ASIAN_UI_FONTS = [
+    "BengaliUI",
+    "GujaratiUI",
+    "GurmukhiUI",
+    "KannadaUI",
+    "MalayalamUI",
+    "SinhalaUI",
+    "TamilUI",
+    "TeluguUI",
+]
+
+# hyphenated or irregular Noto repo names
+NOTO_REPO_FOR_FONT = {
+    "NotoSans": "latin-greek-cyrillic",
+    "NotoSansAdlamUnjoined": "adlam",
+    "NotoSansCanadianAboriginal": "canadian-aboriginal",
+    "NotoSansKayahLi": "kayah-li",
+    "NotoSansNewTaiLue": "new-tai-lue",
+    "NotoSansOlChiki": "ol-chiki",
+    "NotoSansSymbols2": "symbols",
+    "NotoSansTaiLe": "tai-le",
+    "NotoSansTaiTham": "tai-tham",
+    "NotoSansTaiViet": "tai-viet",
+    "NotoSerifArmenian": "armenian",
+    "NotoSerifTibetan": "tibetan",
+}
+
+# Download the fonts in the lists above
+def findFontUrl(fontName, modifier):
+    # remove 'UI' from South Asian font names (not consistent with Arabic, Khmer, Thai)
+    if fontName.replace("NotoSans", "") in SOUTH_ASIAN_UI_FONTS:
+        fontName = fontName.replace("UI", "")
+
+    # pick up regular and irregular repo names for path
+    repo = NOTO_REPO_FOR_FONT.get(
+        fontName, fontName.replace("NotoSans", "").replace("UI", "").lower()
+    )
+
+    return f"{repo}/fonts/{fontName}/hinted/ttf/{fontName}-{modifier}.ttf"
+
+
+def downloadToFile(url, destination, dir=FONTDIR):
+    headers = {"User-Agent": "get-fonts.py/osm-carto"}
+    try:
+        r = requests.get(url, headers=headers)
+        if r.status_code != 200:
+            raise Exception
+        with open(os.path.join(dir, destination), "wb") as f:
+            f.write(r.content)
+    except:
+        raise Exception(f"Failed to download {url}")
+
+
+for font in REGULAR_BOLD + REGULAR_BOLD_ITALIC + REGULAR_BLACK + REGULAR:
+    regular = f"{font}-Regular.ttf"
+    regularFontUrl = findFontUrl(font, "Regular")
+    downloadToFile(f"https://notofonts.github.io/{regularFontUrl}", regular)
+
+    if (font in REGULAR_BOLD) or (font in REGULAR_BOLD_ITALIC):
+        bold = f"{font}-Bold.ttf"
+        boldFontUrl = findFontUrl(font, "Bold")
+        downloadToFile(f"https://notofonts.github.io/{boldFontUrl}", bold)
+
+    if font in REGULAR_BOLD_ITALIC:
+        italic = f"{font}-Italic.ttf"
+        italicFontUrl = findFontUrl(font, "Italic")
+        downloadToFile(f"https://notofonts.github.io/{italicFontUrl}", italic)
+
+    if font in REGULAR_BLACK:
+        black = f"{font}-Black.ttf"
+        blackFontUrl = findFontUrl(font, "Black")
+        downloadToFile(f"https://notofonts.github.io/{blackFontUrl}", black)
+
+# Other noto fonts which don't follow the URL pattern above
+
+# CJK fonts
+downloadToFile(
+    "https://github.com/notofonts/noto-cjk/raw/main/Sans/OTF/Japanese/NotoSansCJKjp-Regular.otf",
+    "NotoSansCJKjp-Regular.otf",
+)
+downloadToFile(
+    "https://github.com/notofonts/noto-cjk/raw/main/Sans/OTF/Japanese/NotoSansCJKjp-Bold.otf",
+    "NotoSansCJKjp-Bold.otf",
+)
+
+# Fonts in zipfiles need a temporary directory
+TMPDIR = tempfile.mkdtemp(prefix="get-fonts.")
+
+# Noto Emoji B&W isn't available as a separate download, so we need to download the package and unzip it
+downloadToFile(
+    "https://fonts.google.com/download?family=Noto%20Emoji",
+    "Noto_Emoji.zip",
+    dir=TMPDIR,
+)
+emojiPath = os.path.join(TMPDIR, "Noto_Emoji.zip")
+emojiExtract = ["static/NotoEmoji-Regular.ttf", "static/NotoEmoji-Bold.ttf"]
+with zipfile.ZipFile(emojiPath, "r") as zip_ref:
+    for file in emojiExtract:
+        source = zip_ref.getinfo(file)
+        zip_ref.extract(source, FONTDIR)
+        # move from FONTDIR/static/x to FONTDIR
+        shutil.move(os.path.join(FONTDIR, file), FONTDIR)
+
+downloadToFile(
+    "https://mirrors.dotsrc.org/osdn/hanazono-font/68253/hanazono-20170904.zip",
+    "hanazono.zip",
+    dir=TMPDIR,
+)
+hanazonoPath = os.path.join(TMPDIR, "hanazono.zip")
+with zipfile.ZipFile(hanazonoPath, "r") as zip_ref:
+    for file in ["HanaMinA.ttf", "HanaMinB.ttf"]:
+        source = zip_ref.getinfo(file)
+        zip_ref.extract(source, FONTDIR)
+
+# clean up tmp directories
+shutil.rmtree(TMPDIR)
+fontdir_static = os.path.join(FONTDIR, "static")
+if os.path.exists(fontdir_static):
+    shutil.rmtree(fontdir_static)
diff --git a/scripts/get-fonts.sh b/scripts/get-fonts.sh
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-#!/usr/bin/env bash
-set -e
-
-FONTDIR="${FONTDIR:-./fonts}"
-
-mkdir -p "${FONTDIR}"
-
-# download filename url
-download() {
-  ## Download if newer, and if curl fails, clean up and exit
-  curl --fail --compressed -A "get-fonts.sh/osm-carto" -o "$1" -z "$1" -L "$2" || { echo "Failed to download $1 $2"; rm -f "$1"; exit 1; }
-}
-
-# TTF Hinted Noto Fonts
-
-# Fonts available in regular, bold, and italic
-REGULAR_BOLD_ITALIC="NotoSans"
-
-# Fonts available in regular and bold
-REGULAR_BOLD="NotoSansAdlamUnjoined;adlam
-NotoSansArabicUI;arabic
-NotoSansArmenian;armenian
-NotoSansBalinese;balinese
-NotoSansBamum;bamum
-NotoSansBengaliUI;bengali
-NotoSansCanadianAboriginal;canadian-aboriginal
-NotoSansCham;cham
-NotoSansCherokee;cherokee
-NotoSansDevanagariUI;devanagari
-NotoSansEthiopic;ethiopic
-NotoSansGeorgian;georgian
-NotoSansGujaratiUI;gujarati
-NotoSansGurmukhiUI;gurmukhi
-NotoSansHebrew;hebrew
-NotoSansJavanese;javanese
-NotoSansKannadaUI;kannada
-NotoSansKayahLi;kayah-li
-NotoSansKhmerUI;khmer
-NotoSansLaoUI;lao
-NotoSansLisu;lisu
-NotoSansMalayalamUI;malayalam
-NotoSansMyanmarUI;myanmar
-NotoSansOlChiki;ol-chiki
-NotoSansOriya;oriya
-NotoSansSinhalaUI;sinhala
-NotoSansSundanese;sundanese
-NotoSansSymbols;symbols
-NotoSansTaiTham;tai-tham
-NotoSansTamilUI;tamil
-NotoSansTeluguUI;telugu
-NotoSansThaana;thaana
-NotoSansThaiUI;thai
-NotoSerifTibetan;tibetan"
-
-# Fonts with regular and black, but no bold
-REGULAR_BLACK="NotoSansSyriac;syriac"
-
-# Fonts only available in regular
-REGULAR="NotoSansBatak;batak
-NotoSansBuginese;buginese
-NotoSansBuhid;buhid
-NotoSansChakma;chakma
-NotoSansCoptic;coptic
-NotoSansHanunoo;hanunoo
-NotoSansLepcha;lepcha
-NotoSansLimbu;limbu
-NotoSansMandaic;mandaic
-NotoSansMongolian;mongolian
-NotoSansNewTaiLue;new-tai-lue
-NotoSansNKo;nko
-NotoSansOsage;osage
-NotoSansOsmanya;osmanya
-NotoSansSamaritan;samaritan
-NotoSansSaurashtra;saurashtra
-NotoSansShavian;shavian
-NotoSansSymbols2;symbols
-NotoSansTagalog;tagalog
-NotoSansTagbanwa;tagbanwa
-NotoSansTaiLe;tai-le
-NotoSansTaiViet;tai-viet
-NotoSansTifinagh;tifinagh
-NotoSansVai;vai
-NotoSansYi;yi"
-
-# Download the fonts in the lists above
-
-for font in $REGULAR_BOLD_ITALIC; do
-  regular="$font-Regular.ttf"
-  bold="$font-Bold.ttf"
-  italic="$font-Italic.ttf"
-  download "${FONTDIR}/${regular}" "https://notofonts.github.io/latin-greek-cyrillic/fonts/${font}/hinted/ttf/${regular}"
-  download "${FONTDIR}/${bold}" "https://notofonts.github.io/latin-greek-cyrillic/fonts/${font}/hinted/ttf/${bold}"
-  download "${FONTDIR}/${italic}" "https://notofonts.github.io/latin-greek-cyrillic/fonts/${font}/hinted/ttf/${italic}"
-done
-
-for fontDir in $REGULAR_BOLD; do
-  IFS=";" read -r -a arr <<< "${fontDir}"
-  font="${arr[0]}"
-  subfolder="${arr[1]}"
-  regular="$font-Regular.ttf"
-  bold="$font-Bold.ttf"
-  # remove UI from South Asian scripts path (not consistent with Arabic, Khmer, Thai)
-  font="${font/BengaliUI/Bengali}"
-  font="${font/GujaratiUI/Gujarati}"
-  font="${font/GurmukhiUI/Gurmukhi}"
-  font="${font/KannadaUI/Kannada}"
-  font="${font/MalayalamUI/Malayalam}"
-  font="${font/SinhalaUI/Sinhala}"
-  font="${font/TamilUI/Tamil}"
-  font="${font/TeluguUI/Telugu}"
-  download "${FONTDIR}/${regular}" "https://notofonts.github.io/${subfolder}/fonts/${font}/hinted/ttf/${regular}"
-  download "${FONTDIR}/${bold}" "https://notofonts.github.io/${subfolder}/fonts/${font}/hinted/ttf/${bold}"
-done
-
-for fontDir in $REGULAR_BLACK; do
-  IFS=";" read -r -a arr <<< "${fontDir}"
-  font="${arr[0]}"
-  subfolder="${arr[1]}"
-  regular="$font-Regular.ttf"
-  black="$font-Black.ttf"
-  download "${FONTDIR}/${regular}" "https://notofonts.github.io/${subfolder}/fonts/${font}/hinted/ttf/${regular}"
-  download "${FONTDIR}/${black}" "https://notofonts.github.io/${subfolder}/fonts/${font}/hinted/ttf/${black}"
-done
-
-for fontDir in $REGULAR; do
-  IFS=";" read -r -a arr <<< "${fontDir}"
-  font="${arr[0]}"
-  subfolder="${arr[1]}"
-  regular="$font-Regular.ttf"
-  download "${FONTDIR}/${regular}" "https://notofonts.github.io/${subfolder}/fonts/${font}/hinted/ttf/${regular}"
-done
-
-# Other noto fonts which don't follow the URL pattern above
-download "${FONTDIR}/NotoSansCJKjp-Regular.otf" "https://github.com/googlefonts/noto-cjk/raw/main/Sans/OTF/Japanese/NotoSansCJKjp-Regular.otf"
-download "${FONTDIR}/NotoSansCJKjp-Bold.otf" "https://github.com/googlefonts/noto-cjk/raw/main/Sans/OTF/Japanese/NotoSansCJKjp-Bold.otf"
-
-# Fonts in zipfiles need a temporary directory
-TMPDIR=$(mktemp -d -t get-fonts.XXXXXXXXX)
-trap "rm -rf ${TMPDIR} ${FONTDIR}/static" EXIT
-
-# Noto Emoji B&W isn't available as a separate download, so we need to download the package and unzip it
-curl --fail -A "get-fonts.sh/osm-carto" -o "${TMPDIR}/Noto_Emoji.zip" -L 'https://fonts.google.com/download?family=Noto%20Emoji'
-
-unzip -oqq "${TMPDIR}/Noto_Emoji.zip" static/NotoEmoji-Regular.ttf static/NotoEmoji-Bold.ttf -d "${FONTDIR}"
-mv "${FONTDIR}/static/NotoEmoji-Regular.ttf" "${FONTDIR}"
-mv "${FONTDIR}/static/NotoEmoji-Bold.ttf" "${FONTDIR}"
-
-curl --fail -A "get-fonts.sh/osm-carto" -o "${TMPDIR}/hanazono.zip" -L 'https://mirrors.dotsrc.org/osdn/hanazono-font/68253/hanazono-20170904.zip'
-
-unzip -oqq "${TMPDIR}/hanazono.zip" HanaMinA.ttf HanaMinB.ttf -d "${FONTDIR}"