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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 mappings, font names, kerning pairs, and at all times you can preview your fonts before installing.
In the Professional Edition, font validation features enable you to improve the quality of your fonts. Tools to join contours simplify and speed up the glyph design process. Powerful transformation scripts let you create hundreds of additional characters in seconds. FontCreator's intelligent generation of composites allows you to automatically generate outlines for more than 2,200 (mostly accented) characters.
Whether you're a type designer or graphic artist who needs a font creation powerhouse, or a hobbyist who wants to have fun creating new fonts, FontCreator has the tools you need.
What's new
FontCreator version 6 contains many new features and improvements that will benefit type designers, font foundries, and power-users. The most impressive new feature that makes designing fonts so much faster is direct import of vector based images. This is the most reliable way to get illustrations made in vector based image editing software (like Adobe Illustrator) into FontCreator.
- Create and edit TrueType and OpenType fonts
- Redesign existing characters
- Add missing characters
- Add up to 65,535 glyphs per font
- Import vector files (EPS, AI, PDF, etc) and bitmap images (BMP, GIF, PNG, etc)
- Edit and regenerate font names
- Fix character mappings
- Correct fonts that display incorrectly
- Convert OpenType fonts to TrueType fonts
- Generate, modify, import, export, and clean up kerning pairs
- Add or correct over two thousand composite glyphs
- Transform individual glyphs or an entire font (e.g. to make a bold version)
- Extract TrueType fonts from TrueType Collections
- Unicode support (including the private use area and supplementary planes)
- All popular encodings and code pages supported (ANSI, ASCII, Unicode, Symbol, Big5, PRC, Wansung, etc)
- Preview fonts before installing
- Install fonts in Windows
FontCreator Professional Edition incorporates all features available in the Home Edition and also includes several additional features.
Home Edition Professional Edition Price (Single user license) US$ 79.00 US$ 199.00 License Restrictions Can be used for commercial purposes No Yes Font Formats Native TrueType font editor Yes Yes Opens TrueType and OpenType font files (.ttf and .otf) Yes Yes Saves TrueType and OpenType font files (.ttf) Yes Yes Extract TrueType fonts from TrueType Collections Yes Yes Unicode and code page support Yes Yes Outline Editing Basic vector paint tools Yes Yes Advanced contour operationsThese contour operations (union, intersection, exclusion and knife) allow you to merge and split contours and are invaluable for consistent glyph design. Union, intersection and exclusion are used to join several overlapping contours. The knife is used to split contours. No Yes Guidelines Yes Yes Import vector based images (EPS, AI, PDF, etc) Yes Yes Import raster based images (BMP, GIF, PNG, etc) Yes Yes Batch transform glyphsThis feature allows you to transform multiple glyphs or even a whole font at once. There are numerous transform scripts available that will turn your font into a bold, italic, hollow or condensed typeface. You can also create your own scripts that for example will rotate, mirror or resize your glyphs. No Yes Manual editing of composite glyphs Yes Yes Automatic composite glyph generationAlthough English doesn't use diacritical marks anymore, most Western languages (Dutch, French, etc.) do. This powerful feature allows you to add a wide range of accented characters to an existing font within seconds. No Yes Test and Installation Preview fonts before installing Yes Yes Font installation wizard Yes Yes Quality Control Font validation wizardDesigning glyphs can be very complicated. The font validation wizard identifies common potential problems and if possible points you to the specific item (e.g. glyphs, contours and coordinates). It validates all glyphs and optionally fixes detected problems. No Yes Real-time glyph validationThis feature locates and solves the same problems as the font validation wizard, but is always available as it is located on a Toolbar. There are several buttons on the Validation toolbar that will solve most problems. No Yes Other Features Editing of naming fields (both manual and automatic) Yes Yes Editing of glyph metrics (both manual and automatic) Yes Yes Manual kerning Yes Yes Automatic kerning wizardMost fonts need adjustment of horizontal space between individual characters so that they look better when used together. For example A and V are often moved closer together, to create visually equal spaces. Although it is possible to add kerning pairs one by one, the easiest way to add kerning to a font is to use the Automatic kerning wizard. No Yes Insert characters featureThis feature allows you to quickly add new characters to your fonts, without worrying about invalid character to glyph mappings and missing postscript names. No Yes Maximum number of glyphs 65,535 65,535 Visit the page for more information about prices, registration details and to order online.
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