Designed for speed as well as depth, FontCreator offers a clear visual canvas backed by heavyweight features like its real-time OpenType Designer and one-click validation wizard. It handles variable- and color-font tech out of the box, lets you paste in raster or vector graphics, and edits both TTF and OTF curves without stripping your existing lookup tables—all in native Windows and macOS builds.

Yes. Every download unlocks a fully-featured free trial that runs in Professional-edition mode, so you can test every advanced capability before you commit. No credit card is required.

Absolutely. FontCreator 15 runs on Windows 7, 8, 10, 11 (including Windows on ARM) and on macOS 11 Big Sur or later, with full support for both Intel and Apple-silicon chips.

Yes. FontCreator opens and preserves every table in your TrueType, OpenType, WOFF/WOFF2, and Variable Font files, letting you tweak outlines or layout features without breaking the original data.

With one click you can export to OpenType (OTF), TrueType (TTF), and web-ready WOFF/WOFF2 packages—plus responsive Variable Fonts—ensuring your type installs cleanly on desktop OSs and loads fast in browsers.

Yes. You can define axes, masters, and layers for Variable Fonts; build multi-color glyphs using COLR or SVG tables; and author or decompile complex OpenType layout code visually or in Adobe FEA syntax.

FontCreator exchanges projects via .glyphs, UFO, and DesignSpace files, accepts copy-and-paste vectors from Illustrator or Affinity, and offers instant previews in external apps or browsers—streamlining cross-tool workflows.

Absolutely. FontCreator’s visual OpenType Designer, built-in shaping engine and anchor manager give you full control over contextual forms, ligatures and mark positioning for right-to-left scripts. Whether you’re adding Hebrew niqqud, Syriac vowel signs or Arabic harakāt, the font editor previews the shaping live and exports standards-compliant OpenType fonts that install cleanly on Windows, macOS and the web—features you can test during the free trial.

Not yet. The manuals are currently offered only in English. However, you can switch the FontCreator interface itself to any of these languages: Arabic, Czech, German, English (US), Spanish, French, Hebrew, Hungarian, Indonesian, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Dutch, Polish, Portuguese, Chinese (Simplified), and Chinese (Traditional).