Private Character Editor Alternatives for Mac

Private Character Editor is not available for Mac but there are plenty of alternatives that runs on macOS with similar functionality. The best Mac alternative is FontForge, which is both free and Open Source. If that doesn't suit you, our users have ranked more than 25 alternatives to Private Character Editor and 12 are available for Mac so hopefully you can find a suitable replacement. Other interesting Mac alternatives to Private Character Editor are BirdFont, Glyphr Studio, Glyphs and Fontself Maker.

Private Character Editor alternatives are mainly Font Editors but may also be Graphic Design Tools. Filter by these if you want a narrower list of alternatives or looking for a specific functionality of Private Character Editor.

Private Character Editor

Free • Proprietary
Font Editor

(Windows built-in) Using Private Character Editor (PCE), you can create up to 6,400 unique characters (such as special...

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FontForge
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Free • Open Source
Font Editor
Mac
Windows
Linux
31 FontForge alternatives
Fontforge is a free Typeface (font) editor program for Windows, Mac OS X and GNU+Linux and is localized in several languages.
- - FontForge is the most popular Windows, Mac & Linux alternative to Private Character Editor.
- - FontForge is the most popular Open Source & free alternative to Private Character Editor.
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1. PortableFontForge can be used from a USB stick or similar with no prior installation.
Font maker
Typography
Web fonts
BirdFont
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Freemium • Open Source
Font Editor
Graphic Design Tool
Mac
Windows
Linux
BSD
22 BirdFont alternatives
Birdfont is a free font editor which lets you create vector graphics and export TTF, OTF, EOT and SVG fonts.
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BirdFont Features
OTF editing
Color Fonts Support
TTF editing
Glyphr Studio
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Free • Open Source
Font Editor
Mac
Windows
Linux
Online
21 Glyphr Studio alternatives
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 however is streamlined and made for font design hobbyists... and it's free!.
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Glyphr Studio Features
Add ligatures
Glyphs
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Paid • Proprietary
Font Editor
Mac
23 Glyphs alternatives
Make everything from dingbat webfonts to full-fledged text typefaces in the most Mac-like font editor.
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Glyphs Features
OTF editing
OpenType Support
Typography
Fontself Maker
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Paid • Proprietary
Font Editor
Mac
Windows
Adobe Illustrator
Adobe Photoshop
23 Fontself Maker alternatives
Meet the fastest & easiest tool to create OpenType fonts, right within Illustrator & Photoshop CC. Fontself is used by thousands of creatives, including at Nike, Adobe, Google, Disney, Ubisoft or Sony.
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Fontself Maker Features
1. Extensible by Plugins/ExtensionsFontself Maker can be extended with add-ons, plugins and extensions.
Font maker
Typography
Color Fonts Support
Handwriting
FontLab Studio
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Paid • Proprietary
Font Editor
Mac
Windows
25 FontLab Studio alternatives
FontLab Studio 5 is next-generation professional font editor for Mac and Windows. Used by Adobe, Apple, Bitstream, IBM, Linotype, Microsoft, Monotype, Morisawa and almost every other major font foundry in the world, it is the comprehensive solution for font foundries...
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Typography
Discontinued
The program can be still bought from the official website, but it will not receive other updates. Its successor is FontLab
TruFont
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Free • Open Source
Font Editor
Mac
Windows
Linux
30 TruFont alternatives
TruFont is a font-editing application written with Python3, ufoLib, defcon and PyQt5.
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Discontinued
According to the Github page:"Maintenance status: The trufont project is currently discontinued. Although we will happily accept bug fixes, no new features are currently planned."
TypeTool
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Paid • Proprietary
Font Editor
Mac
Windows
22 TypeTool alternatives
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.
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Typography
Fontographer
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Paid • Proprietary
Font Editor
Mac
Windows
25 Fontographer alternatives
Fontographer is a font editor for mac and windows.
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Fontographer Features
Typography
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AFDKO
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Free • Proprietary
Font Editor
Mac
Windows
Linux
8 AFDKO alternatives
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.
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1. Command line interfaceAFDKO either have CLI support or is a CLI-only app.
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Crossfont by Pixel Egg Studio
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Paid • Proprietary
Font Editor
Mac
25 Crossfont by Pixel Egg Studio alternatives
Easy-to-use font editor for Mac.
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Crossfont by Pixel Egg Studio Features
Typography
RoboFont
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Paid • Proprietary
Font Editor
Mac
24 RoboFont alternatives
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.
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Typography
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