FontCreator - the most popular font editor!
With more than 2.5 million downloads, FontCreator is the world's most popular font editing software. It has an intuitive interface that allows beginners to become productive immediately and it contains the powerful drawing tools that font designers require to create and edit high-quality TrueType and OpenType fonts.
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.
Key Features
- Create and edit TrueType and OpenType fonts
- Redesign existing characters
- Add missing characters
- Add up to 65,535 glyphs per font
- Convert vector files (EPS, AI, PDF, etc) and bitmap images (BMP, GIF, PNG, etc) to character outlines
- Edit and regenerate font names
- Fix character mappings
- Correct fonts that display incorrectly
- 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 5.1 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
System Requirements
- Microsoft Windows 7, Vista, XP, 2003, 2000, NT, Me, 98 or 95
- 24 MB of free disk space
Our software works with Windows, but fonts created with FontCreator can also be used on Mac OS X and Linux.
User Manual
Check out the online user manual, and see how easy it is to use FontCreator. You can become productive - and creative - in minutes.
Comparison Chart
FontCreator is available in two editions. This comparison chart shows the differences between the Home and Professional Edition.
Purchase
Download the free trial version of FontCreator now, and see how quickly and easily you can create new fonts or modify existing ones. Then, you can buy the Home Edition for $79.00(US) and the Professional Edition for $199.00(US). Visit the Buy page for more information about prices, registration details and to order online.
Additional Information
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User Quotes
“Creating a font with Scanahand was fun!”
Al Harberg
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“MainType is the font manager that should have been built into Windows long ago.”
Robert Barnett
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“I have been able to build a successful business using FontCreator.”
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