Name: FontForge
Rating: 3.5 (2 reviews)

FontForge

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It's one of the best font creator app that i've tested, stable, solid, a little old UI but this don't affect his functionality.

It's solid and functional, but the user interface is GOD AWFUL. It's like something made for robots. It hurts my eyes to look at it, and hurts my brain to think where a certain option might or might not be placed and how it might be named. 
Classic open source syndrome. Needs a MAJOR ui overhaul.

This does good for font creation, I used a program similar to this when I made up my own fonts, I just dont remember what that old program was called anymore.

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Fontforge is a free Typeface (font) editor program for Windows, Mac OS X and GNU+Linux  and is localized in several languages.

Use it to create, edit and convert fonts in OpenType, TrueType, UFO, CID-keyed, Multiple Master, and many other formats.

Fontforge supports several font formats like TrueType, PostScript, OpenType, CID-keyed, multi-master, CFF, SVG, BDF, Datafork TrueType, etc. Fontforge can convert fonts from one format to another. 

FontForge can also store fonts in its native format called “spline font database files” using the .sfd extension, which has the advantage that is text-based.

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{app} can be used from a USB stick or similar with no prior installation.

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FontForge editing the font "Santana" on Ubuntu 10.10

Mastering FontForge drawing tools

From the main window, double-click on one of the glyph boxes to launch the Glyph Window. <http://designwithfontforge.com/en-US/Using_the_Fontforge_Drawing_Tools.html>

This automatic placement of diacritic marks can be tuned by preferences, found in the ‘accents’ section of FontForge’s preferences menu ‘File > Preferences > Accents’ <http://designwithfontforge.com/en-US/Diacritics_and_Accents.html>

Find Problems: The first tool is called Find Problems, and is found under the Element menu. You must first select one or more glyphs — either from the font view, the outline view, or the metrics view — then open the Find Problems tool. The tool presents you with an assortment of potential problems in eight separate tabs.
<http://designwithfontforge.com/en-US/Making_Sure_Your_Font_Works_Validation.html>

"The Font Info window is ubiquitous in font editors, and FontForge closely follows the OpenType Specification. It may appear cryptic at first, but using it can help you become more familiar with the OpenType format, and, in turn, reading about the OpenType format makes the dialog more approachable." <http://designwithfontforge.com/en-US/Font_Info_&_Metadata.html>

Kerning individual pairs

This is the most basic level of creating kerning pairs in FontForge. In the Metrics Window, the kerning value between two characters can be manually adjusted either by dragging the right-hand character to or from the left-hand character, or by editing the kerning value directly in the metrics table of the window. To change kerning values by dragging characters, use the kern-tool handle that appears when the mouse cursor is hovering between two characters (see screenshot below). The kerning value in the metrics table can be edited by manually entering values or by incrementing / decrementing the value using your keyboard’s up / down keys. <http://designwithfontforge.com/en-US/Spacing_Metrics_and_Kerning.html>

Toggle out of Spiro mode back into Bézier mode. You will notice there are a lot of points on the resulting curve — you may want to clean some of them up. <http://designwithfontforge.com/en-US/Drawing_With_Spiro.html>

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