Also generate Type 1 and Mac Classic font formats. The app will figure out the rest, and export the font using our industry-proved high-end FontLab engine.įontographer automatically optimizes the font rendering in small sizes using sophisticated autohinting, or lets you manually define hints. In Fontographer 5, you only need to set some basic technical parameters to generate a font. You can add small caps, ligatures, alternate glyphs and glyphs for complex scripts such as Arabic using OpenType Layout tables. In FontLab 8, you can create accented letters faster using anchors and auto layers. Add alternate glyphs, small caps, ligatures or glyphs from other writing systems.Īdd OpenType Layout features : use the Adobe FEA syntax to write the feature definitions in an external text editor, and include them in the exported font. Use built-in and custom encoding filters to view your glyph set. Create accented characters using components. Edit fonts with up to 32, glyphs from any writing system, with any Unicode codepoint. Use Auto Kern to automatically generate kerning pairs for glyph pairs that need placement correction.įontLab 8 lets you space, kern, draw and edit glyphs in its unified windows. Use Metrics Assistance to copy metrics to other glyphs. Use the Metrics Window to manually tweak the glyph metrics. Use Auto Space to automatically set the metrics widths and sidebearings of all or some glyphs. The distances between the contours and the advance width on each side of the glyph are called sidebearings. Your glyph contours are drawn inside the advance width but may also overhang outside the width. Then, the 2nd glyph is placed at the text cursor. Each glyph is a design on an advance width. In FontLab 8, you can draw and edit many glyphs at once with our next-generation drawing tools: a live calligraphic Power Brush, an easy Rapid drawing tool, a live pathfinding Fill tool.Įdit your outlines faster with Power Nudge, slide node, G2 Genius nodes, revolutionary Tunni lines, live rounded corners. Make the glyphs lighter or bolder with Change Weight.Ĭreate intermediate weights with Blend Fonts. Measure distances with the Measurement tool, and use arbitrary vector shapes as guides in the Guidelines layer. Turn template bitmaps into outlines with precise Auto Trace. Place curves and bitmaps into the Template layer for reference. Turn on Auto Curvature to keep nodes extra-smooth. Remove nodes manually with Merge Points and automatically with Clean Up Paths while keeping the shapes of the curves. Draw calligraphic strokes with the pressure-sensitive Calligraphy Pen.Īdd nodes and slice through segments with Knife. Draw geometric shapes with the Rectangle or Polygon tools including stars and rounded corners, and with the Ellipse tool. Make and edit OpenType, color and variable fonts. FontLab 8 is our new font editor for Mac and Windows, with re-imagined vector drawing unlike any other app.
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