Font Program
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- aframe
Does anyone know a good program for the Mac to make fonts? I use to use Macromedia Fontographer, but I think that's been gone for a while now. Thanks.
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Fontlab
- Bam0
Definately Fontlab. It's superb.
- minimalista0
Fontlab bought Fontographer and re-released it for OSX:
http://fontlab.com/Font-tools/Fo…
You can upgrade for a small amount of money.
- Nairn0
If you're actually paying for this, and are not a serious Fontsmithie, I'd recommend Typetool, by the same company as Fontlab.
Coupled with progs like Illy, it's actually pretty good and is more than capable of getting the job done.
Personally, I couldn't justify $650 for a font editor, and having never used FL, I have a hard time seeing imagining what it does that TT doesn't.
- aframe0
Thanks a lot.
- Typographica0
Nairn is probably right that TypeTool is all you need. But here's a list of the hundreds of things FontLab can do that TT can't: