FontCreator
The world's most popular font editor.
What is FontCreator?
This professional font editor allows you to create and edit TrueType and OpenType fonts. It has the powerful drawing tools that typographers and graphic designers require, and an intuitive interface that allows beginners to become productive immediately. When you create or open a font, FontCreator displays an overview of all available characters. You can simply add missing characters, or select an existing character, and modify its appearance.
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1940LaSalle reviewed FontCreatorI'm a font hobbyist. As a retired engineer, I find FontCreator an optimal choice for price and versatility. It's sufficiently intuitive that anyone who's reasonably computer-literate can jump in readily. Also, I find the level of precision satisfying: e.g., it permits rigorous construction of tangents, drawing conic sections, etc. for the style of fonts I like.- AymanSiddiqui reviewed FontCreatorAyFontCreator had been my first choice for getting started in no time and producing satisfactory results. I had tried FontForge before but paying the price for FontCreator was really worth every penny. You can create from scratch or convert any normal Black and white Fonts to color fonts easily. Maybe FontCreator is the first choice Font software for anyone who wants to get started developing color fonts that too with multiple palettes. This software just makes things easy and quick. Loved it! ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐
- AymanSiddiqui liked FontCreatorAy
I'm a font hobbyist. As a retired engineer, I find FontCreator an optimal choice for price and versatility. It's sufficiently intuitive that anyone who's reasonably computer-literate can jump in readily. Also, I find the level of precision satisfying: e.g., it permits rigorous construction of tangents, drawing conic sections, etc. for the style of fonts I like.
FontCreator had been my first choice for getting started in no time and producing satisfactory results. I had tried FontForge before but paying the price for FontCreator was really worth every penny. You can create from scratch or convert any normal Black and white Fonts to color fonts easily. Maybe FontCreator is the first choice Font software for anyone who wants to get started developing color fonts that too with multiple palettes. This software just makes things easy and quick. Loved it! ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐
Font Creator is an excellent programme both for beginners and professionals alike. I used it when I first started out and now still use it just having had a font design accepted by MyFonts. I've tried other design packages but to no avail. Font Creator also excels as a vector design tool which I have used to create very accurate logos.
I have been using Font Creator since version 5.6 hence since about 2006. I am not a commercial font developer but I have used this font editor to pursue my hobby of designing calligraphic fonts from scratch. As a result I have designed fonts from Uncial, Carolingian, Italics and most of the others including faithful Trajan Capitals. It has been a delightful experience and I can strongly recommend Font Creator to anyone who has a professional need or looking for a new hobby.
The key features of Font Creator is its short learning time. I got designing after reading the first half a page of a worked example from the program's manual. It is that user friendly. Other font editors require several weeks of intense learning cycle. With Font Creator I got going basically in a few minutes.
I am also a user of FontLab. A great program and perhaps the best in the market, but after 5 years or more I am still learning and nearly always I opt to go back to Font Creator and accomplish my task much quicker.
My only regret is that Font Creator is only available for Windows and since I became a Mac user I have to boot-up my desktop or MacBook Pro as a Windows machine. But Font Creator in 5K resolution is a treat to view. In short: Font Creator is simple to learn, powerful and does it all. Professional font developers will find it very productive indeed.
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FontCreator Pro is a font creator designed to help you create your own signature, logo and handwriting, or a font to install and use on your computer.
FontCreator Pro is a powerful tool that allows you to accurately create and design your own fonts. It can be used by both novices and experts. Designing fonts isn't easy, but FontCreator Pro simplifies the process with an intuitive interface and tons of features. Its specialized drawing tools allow you to design glyphs one by one. If you're not patient enough to start from scratch, it's easy to import an existing TrueType (TTF) font and start editing every detail. You can also convert images to glyphs, which allows you to turn a logo or your handwriting into a custom font. That said, it's the bonus utilities that elevate FontCreator Pro to the pro level. Glyph Transformer allows you to instantly bold, rotate, or change every character in a font. You can also set kerning, change character-to-glyph mapping, and validate fonts to find common issues. FontCreator Pro rich features and recently improved ease of use make it a great choice for character designers of all skill levels. First-time users will probably have a hard time getting around this software, but they should read the help file with confidence. It does not take a long time to learn how to use FontCreator Pro, and its comprehensive feature set is explained in detail in the available documentation. We have not encountered any problems during our tests. In addition, FontCreator Pro uses a small amount of CPU and resources. The fact of the matter is that the software is great for building and designing fonts. You can also search for a glyph by its postscript name and by its mappings, set bookmarks in the Glyph Overview and Glyph Edit window, change glyph properties, copy and paste glyphs, add a new character, use glyph metrics to help you design the font, and more. Wonderful, productive, productive software for any typographer who likes to tinker with design and not all the rattling around. Absorbing and innovative software that is designed excellent and constantly improving, and also great service, I highly recommend !!
In the three months or so since FontCreator 13, Build 2610 was released on 18th March the sole developer has added several new features. Most program updates for other software just fix bugs, but as well as fixing bugs the developer adds significant new features. All upgrades are free for existing users.
Unified Font Objects These are used to exchange fonts with other font editors that support them FontCreator 13 can now import or export UFOs. (Caveat, colour font data is not supported). The built-in Code Editor can switch to FEA feature definitions.
Glyph Name Completion Type the first few letters of a Unicode glyph name and press Ctrl+Space to display a list of glyph names starting with those letters. (Note: glyph names are case-sensitive, so Roc will not find — you have to type roc.
OpenType Explorer Easily find classes, lookups, and features.
Resize Groups of Points Select a group of points (nodes) in the glyph edit window, and press shortcut "t" or click again to get resizing handles.
Validation Improvements OpenType code checking finds more errors.
Font Creator is one of the best font designing application. It is user friendly and very comprehensive. All the aspects a designer need are in this application.
It has everything I need. I am happy for having Font creator. Thanks to the font creator team to provide us with such an amazing thing. I highly recommend.