Glyphs!
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- ismith
Does anyone here use it? I saw some talk on the typophile forum about it but nothing really in depth. Link if you haven't seen it before:
- ismith0
Bump. It's been a while, maybe someone's given it a go by now? I have a couple rough faces in my notebooks that I'd like to get to work on and I'm trying to determine whether or not I should just go with FontLab.
- VectorMasked0
I've used it these last couple of months, although I still prefer Fontlab since it's hard to learn and it truly helps you understand how a font is really developed.
Overall Glyphs is a nice little program. There is no learning curve and you can produce fonts faster than with FontLab. For now it just seems to be a program targeted at beginners, although I hear an update is coming which could offer a little more.Pros: It's very easy to learn, you don't need to learn phyton, it produces OpenType features at the click of a button, you don't need to deal with the nightmare "hinting" is, you can have a final OTF file ready for use at the click of a button. Costs half of what FontLab costs. Has a way better looking interface than FontLab.
Cons: It takes you 5 minutes to explore the entire program and you go like "that's it?", and feel you don't like you are in control and that you are missing so much of the process, intricacies and nightmares of font dev. I've been using FontLab for 10 months I still feel I know only like 5% of what it can do. Drawing tools are ok, but again FontLab seems to offer more options, accuracy when drawing your glyphs. You can't export fonts in TrueType format.
- <- excuse the grammar. It's early and just got up.VectorMasked
- Thanks, that's exactly the kind of info I was looking for. I'll give it a run in trial mode but from the sound of it I think I'll be more comfortable sticking with FontLab.ismith
- more comfortable sticking with FontLab. Maybe Glyphs mini will come in handy for prototyping though...ismith
