With FontLab, 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 workflows.
Next-generation
drawing
Creating Bézier curves is no longer “mastery or mystery.”
Seriously better
Béziers
We love curves so much that we are making them better.
Hello, color!
Smart glyph creation beyond traditional outlines.
Variations
included
Axes, Masters and Instances.
Outer and inner
space
Metrics, kerning & anchors.
Always
organized
Synchronize design changes. Find, sort and classify glyphs.
Pain-free
production
Top gear at top speed. Serious font work with ease.
FontLab VI Summary:
Drawing &
Importing
- Draw outline-based glyphs using the Brush, Pencil, Rapid, Pen,
Ellipse, and Rectangle tools, in a fractional coordinate space with
live rounding into integer coordinates.
- Use upright and slanted grids, flexible guidelines, snapping
suggestions and live measurement tools for consistent and precise
vector drawing.
- Paste and import vector artwork, scanned character sets or color
bitmap glyphs, and turn them into monochrome fonts via customizable
autotracing, and into color fonts.
- Draw calligraphic letterforms using a live, adjustable PowerBrush
tool, assign and expand strokes.
Editing
- Natively edit cubic PostScript Bézier curves and quadratic
TrueType curves, including overlapping open paths, using the
Contour, Knife, Scissors and Fill tools. Convert between the curve
types with adjustable precision.
- Find and fix outline problems with FontAudit. Automatically clean
up and optimize outline drawings, balance segments and modify curve
tension, harmonize G2 curvature, create and remove overlapping
paths, apply non-destructive ink traps and rounded corners.
- Automatically change weight, create contour versions, apply
effects to outline and bitmap glyphs.
Composites
- Blend, interpolate and extrapolate fonts, create intermediate
weights and styles, build extensive font families and variable
OpenType fonts with intermediate font and glyph masters, and
automatic masters matching for point-compatible outlines.
Variation
- Blend, interpolate and extrapolate fonts, create intermediate
weights and styles, build extensive font families and variable
OpenType fonts with intermediate font and glyph masters, and
automatic masters matching for point-compatible outlines.
Spacing &
Kerning
- Space entire phrases and kern according to planned pair lists.
Apply tracking, modify widths, sidebearings and kerning globally or
for selected glyphs.
- Automatically or manually link metrics between glyphs using
complex expressions.
- Kern between classes and glyphs in a UFO- and OpenType-compatible
way, with exceptions.
- Automatically build kerning classes.
- Automatically calculate metrics and kerning, or use autokerning
suggestions as you kern manually.
Fonts
- Create, open, edit and export monochrome outline fonts with
single masters (desktop and web) and multiple masters (variable),
color fonts (with multi-layer editable glyphs, SVG glyphs or bitmap
glyphs).
- Compare fonts, merge and split font glyph sets and variations.
Modify fonts, glyphs, metrics, kerning and technical font
information. Convert between font formats, improve screen
appearance with automatic and manual hinting. Exchange font source
with other font creation apps.
Technology
- Full Unicode support.
- Advanced OpenType Layout features creation with FEA format and
Adobe FDK for OpenType.
- Kern feature optimization by KLTF.
- Feature preview with the HarfBuzz world-ready engine.
- Windows screen preview with genuine Microsoft ClearType (even on
the Mac).
- Variations with MutatorMath and fontTools.varLib.
Formats
- Open and export OpenType-PS/CFF (OTF), OpenType TT / TrueType
(TTF), Variable OpenType TT (TTF+gvar), Color OpenType (TTF+SVG,
+COLR, +CBDT, +sbix), PostScript Type 1 (PFB/PFA), Web fonts
(WOFF2, WOFF, EOT), FontLab (VFB, VFC, VFJ), UFO, designSpace.
- Also open BitFonter Photofont (PHF+PNG, +SVG), Fontographer
(FOG), Glyphs, Ikarus, and any of the above in ZIP files.