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

Glyphs

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

Commercial $ $ $ Mac

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

TruFont

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

Free Open Source Mac Windows Linux

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

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

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

AFDKO

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.

Free Mac Windows Linux

Fontographer

Fontographer is a font editor for mac and windows.

Commercial Mac Windows