FontForge

Typeface (font) editor program developed by George Williams. Fontforge is free software and is distributed under the BSD license. FontForge is available for several...

Free Open Source Mac Windows Linux

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

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...

Commercial Windows

FontStruct

FontStruct is a free font-building tool brought to you by the world’s leading retailer of digital type, FontShop. FontStruct lets you quickly and easily create fonts...

Free Web

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

FontLab VI

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...

Commercial $ $ $ Mac Windows

Type light

With Type light you can design, edit and convert OpenType, TrueType and PostScript fonts. As a light version of Type 3.2 font editor it is your ideal package for...

Free Personal Windows

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

TruFont

TruFont is a font-editing application written with Python3, ufoLib, defcon and PyQt5.

Free Open Source Mac Windows Linux

RoboFont

RoboFont is a UFO based, mac only, font editor. Written from scratch in Python with scalability in mind. The editor allows full scripting access to objects and...

Commercial Mac

Private Character Editor

(Windows built-in) Using Private Character Editor (PCE), you can create up to 6,400 unique characters (such as special letters and logos) for use in your font library....

Free Windows

Glyphs

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

Commercial $ $ $ Mac

Type 3.2

Type 3.2 is advanced typography made accessible. Design, edit and convert OpenType and TrueType fonts. Run user defined Actions (eg italicise your font) and add...

Commercial Windows

Crossfont by Pixel Egg Studio

Easy-to-use font editor for Mac.

Commercial $ $ $ Mac

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