Alternatives to FontForge for Mac with any license

BirdFont

Birdfont is a free font editor which lets you create vector graphics and export TTF, OTF, EOT and SVG fonts.

Free Personal $ $ $ Open Source Mac Windows Linux BSD
Color Fonts Support OTF editing TTF editing SVG Editors Add a feature

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FontLab

With FontLab VI, you can create, open, modify, draw, space, kern, hint and export desktop, web, color and variable fonts. The app is an all-around font editor, but also...
- FontLab VI support modern features such as OpenType Variations (variable fonts) and color fonts. It has a modern interface, and supports Mac and Windows interface conventions instead of using X-Windows like FontForge. It is under active development instead of being mostly in maintenance mode. tphinney • Jul 2018 • 1 agrees and 0 disagrees
Commercial $ $ $ Mac Windows
Color Fonts Support Customizable OpenType Support Add a feature

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Glyphs

Make everything from dingbat webfonts to full-fledged text typefaces in the most Mac-like font editor.

Commercial $ $ $ Mac
Typography Add a feature

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Fontself Maker for Illustrator & Photoshop

Meet the fastest & easiest tool to create OpenType fonts, right within Illustrator & Photoshop CC. Fontself is used by thousands of creatives, including at Nike...

Commercial $ $ $ Mac Windows Adobe Illustrator Adobe Photoshop
Color Fonts Support Handwriting Plugins Typography Add a feature

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FontLab Studio

FontLab Studio 5 is next-generation professional font editor for Mac and Windows. Used by Adobe, Apple, Bitstream, IBM, Linotype, Microsoft, Monotype, Morisawa and...
- Discontinued
  The program can be still bought from the official website, but it will not receive other updates. Its successor is https://alternativeto.net/software/fontlab-vi/
Commercial Mac Windows
Typography Add a feature

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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...
- 1.Edit existing fonts 2.add ligatures Guest • Jul 2019
Free Open Source Mac Windows Linux Web
Add ligatures Edit fonts Add a feature

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AFDKO

AFDKO is a collection of command-line tools used at Adobe for manipulating and creating OpenType font files. Can verify structures, and table entries and their checksums.

Free Mac Windows Linux
Command line interface Add a feature

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Fontographer

Fontographer is a font editor for mac and windows.

Commercial Mac Windows
Typography Add a feature

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Crossfont by Pixel Egg Studio

Easy-to-use font editor for Mac.

Commercial $ $ $ Mac
Typography Add a feature

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TypeTool

TypeTool is our basic font editor for Mac OS and for Windows. For students, hobby typographers and creative professionals who occasionally need to create or customize...

Commercial $ $ $ Mac Windows
Typography Add a feature

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