Open Source FontCreator Alternatives

The best open source alternative to FontCreator is FontForge. If that doesn't suit you, our users have ranked more than 10 alternatives to FontCreator and four of them is open source so hopefully you can find a suitable replacement. Other interesting open source alternatives to FontCreator are BirdFont, Glyphr Studio and TruFont.

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FontCreator

Paid • Proprietary
Font Editor
Windows

This professional font editor allows you to create and edit TrueType and OpenType fonts. It has the powerful drawing tools...

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FontForge
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Free • Open Source
Font Editor
Mac
Windows
Linux
30 alternatives to FontForge
Fontforge is a free Typeface (font) editor program for Windows, Mac OS X and GNU+Linux and is localized in several languages.
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FontForge Features
1. PortableFontForge can be used from a USB stick or similar with no prior installation.
Font maker
Typography
Web fonts
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Most users think FontForge is a great alternative to FontCreator.
BirdFont
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Freemium • Open Source
Font Editor
Mac
Windows
Linux
BSD
21 alternatives to BirdFont
Birdfont is a free font editor which lets you create vector graphics and export TTF, OTF, EOT and SVG fonts.
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BirdFont Features
OTF editing
Color Fonts Support
TTF editing
Glyphr Studio
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Free • Open Source
Font Editor
Mac
Windows
Linux
Online
20 alternatives to Glyphr Studio
Glyphr Studio is a free online font editor to make good looking professional typefaces. Many professional font editors are very complex and/or very expensive. This tool however is streamlined and made for font design hobbyists... and it's free!.
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Glyphr Studio Features
Add ligatures
TruFont
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Free • Open Source
Font Editor
Mac
Windows
Linux
28 alternatives to TruFont
TruFont is a font-editing application written with Python3, ufoLib, defcon and PyQt5.

TruFont has no features, suggest some!
Discontinued
According to the Github page:"Maintenance status: The trufont project is currently discontinued. Although we will happily accept bug fixes, no new features are currently planned."

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FontForge

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BirdFont

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Glyphr Studio

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TruFont