FontCreator is the world's most popular font editor. An advanced feature set makes it the tool of choice for professionals, and its intuitive interface is straightforward enough for users at any expertise level. Create your own fonts, redesign existing characters, edit the spacing in font sets, and much more.
When you create or open a font, FontCreator displays an overview of all available characters. You can simply add missing characters, or select an existing character, and modify its appearance. You can import (scanned) images of your signature or company logo, or make a font from your own handwriting. With FontCreator you can also fix character codepoints, font names, kerning pairs, and at all times you can preview your fonts before installing.
Font overview with categories
The glyph and character category panel gives you quick and easy access to the glyphs, character subsets and Unicode ranges.
Design high quality fonts.
The standard and professional edition include font validation features which enable you to improve the quality of your fonts by locating and solving common glyph problems .
Work with OpenType, TrueType and Web fonts
FontCreator supports Open Type, True Type and Web Open Font Format (WOFF) fonts which can be used on Windows, Mac OS X, Linux, and in all modern web browsers.
Test your font
At any time during your font development, you can test it in other applications. You can even generate a local webpage to test it as a Web font. Preview an online version of a Web font test page here.
OpenType Layout Features made easy
Common OpenType layout features are automatically added to your fonts and with the standard and professional editions you can take full control over these features through custom scripts.
Easy access to common glyph properties
The glyph properties toolwindow gives you easy access to the glyph's name, codepoints and bearings
Kerning
Manually add kerning to your font or let the Autokerning wizard take care of kerning for you in the standard and professional edition.
Optical Metrics
The Optical metrics feature in the professional edition simplifies one of the most complex and time consuming tasks in font design. It analyzes a set of most common characters to find the best left and right side bearings of each of these glyphs.
Import images and Vector graphics
Import (scanned) images or Vector graphics and convert them into glyphs. Create your own handwriting font by scanning your handwriting and import it into FontCreator.
Complete composites
The standard and professional edition allow intelligent generation of outlines for more than 2,200 (mostly accented) composite characters.
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