Fontographer Alternatives

Fontographer is described as 'Font editor for mac and windows' and is a Font Editor in the os & utilities category. There are more than 25 alternatives to Fontographer for a variety of platforms, including Windows, Mac, Web-based, Linux and BSD apps. The best Fontographer alternative is FontForge, which is both free and Open Source. Other great apps like Fontographer are BirdFont, MkFont, Glyphr Studio and FontCreator.

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  1. FontLab icon
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    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 supports data interchange with other font creation tools, making it easy to integrate into your existing...

    Cost / License

    • Pay once
    • Proprietary

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
     
  2. TruFont icon
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    TruFont is a font-editing application written with Python3, ufoLib, defcon and PyQt5.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Application type

    Alerts

    • Discontinued

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
     
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    (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. PCE contains basic tools for creating and editing characters, along with more advanced options.

    26 Private Character Editor alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Proprietary

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Windows
     
  4. FontStruct icon
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    FontStruct is a free font-building tool brought to you by the world’s leading retailer of digital type, FontShop.

    25 FontStruct alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Proprietary

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Online
     
  5. Fony icon
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    Fony is an editor for bitmap (raster) fonts. While the focus is on Windows FNT/FON bitmap fonts, it can import and export some other popular file formats.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Proprietary

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Windows
     
  6. YourFonts.com icon
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    YourFonts is an online font generator that turns your handwriting into a font that you can use in every program that you own. 250,000+ fonts already made!

    Cost / License

    • Freemium
    • Proprietary

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Online
     
  7. TypeTool icon
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    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 fonts.

    Cost / License

    • Pay once
    • Proprietary

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
     
  8. Typlr.app icon
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    A web-based font editor.

    Cost / License

    • Freemium (Subscription)
    • Proprietary

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Online
    • Software as a Service (SaaS)
     
    • Typlr.app is the most popular SaaS alternative to Fontographer.

    • Typlr.app is Freemium and ProprietaryFontographer is Paid and Proprietary
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    Need to generate your own font? Our font creators make your handwriting as your font. You can use our font generators and create your own font online.

    Cost / License

    • Paid
    • Proprietary

    Platforms

    • Online
     
  10. RoboFont icon
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    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 interface. The application is a platform for drawing and modifying typefaces and much more.

    Cost / License

    • Paid
    • Proprietary

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Mac
     
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