Glyphs Alternatives

Glyphs is described as 'Make everything from dingbat webfonts to full-fledged text typefaces in the most Mac-like font editor' and is a Font Editor in the os & utilities category. There are more than 10 alternatives to Glyphs for a variety of platforms, including Windows, Mac, Web-based, Linux and BSD apps. The best Glyphs alternative is FontForge, which is both free and Open Source. Other great apps like Glyphs are BirdFont, MkFont, Glyphr Studio and FontCreator.

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

    30 TruFont alternatives

    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.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Proprietary

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Windows
     
  3. 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
     
  4. 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
     
  5. 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
     
  6. Fontographer icon
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    Fontographer is a font editor for mac and windows.

    26 Fontographer alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Paid
    • Proprietary

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
     
  7. 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 Glyphs.

    • Typlr.app is Freemium and ProprietaryGlyphs 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
     
  9. 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
     
  10. Unique icon
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    A custom font goes a long way, giving you that special extra. Simply select, customise and off you go with a font you love.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Proprietary

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Online
     
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