The world's most popular font editor
With over 5 million downloads to date, FontCreator is considered the world's most popular and best font editor. Create and edit (variable) OpenType and web fonts. An advanced feature set makes it the tool of choice for professionals, and its intuitive interface is straightforward enough for users at any expertise level.
Font Overview with Categories
OpenType, TrueType and Web fonts
FontCreator supports all common font formats, including OpenType, TrueType, and Web Open Font Format (WOFF and WOFF2). These fonts are universally accessible across Windows, Mac OS X, Linux, and all modern web browsers.
Design High Quality Fonts
Optimize Contours
Optimizing glyph outlines will reduce the number of points that make up the contour(s). It supports both quadratic and cubic bezier curves.
Import Vector Images
Import Raster (bitmap) Images
Effortlessly import scanned images of your handwriting or manuscript into fully-fledged glyph outlines.
Visual OpenType Designer
Kerning
Powerful Transform Wizard
Both the standard and professional editions offer a robust transform wizard, simplifying the glyph transformation process with just a few clicks. Effortlessly add characters for other languages, small capitals, and beyond or transform your font to Italic or Bold.
OpenType Feature Proofing
Use FontCreator to debug OpenType layout features with the interactive proofing tool. It uses an advanced shaping engine which allows you to view, create, edit, and debug even the most complex fonts.
Optical Metrics
The optical metrics feature in the professional edition simplifies one of the most complex and time-consuming tasks in font design. It analyzes a set of the most common characters to find the best left and right side-bearings for each of these glyphs.
Complete Composites
The standard and professional edition allow intelligent generation of character outlines for more than 3000 (mostly accented) composite characters. It supports both composite data definitions and anchor based positioning.
What They're Saying
I created a font called Dinzy Minzy with FontCreator. It's on myfonts.com in the top 50 Hot New Fonts!!! Thank you for the great font editor!
Aaron Bogle
FontCreator is a fabulous piece of software. It works flawlessly and is sooo much more powerful than the more expensive alternative font editors.
Stephen Cassar
FontCreator functions extremely well. No other font editor offers such a complete and comprehensive set of tools.
Malcolm Wooden
I highly recommend FontCreator and want to say thank you for a brilliant font editor; stable, intuitive, powerful, and simple to use.
Rickard Törnqvist
After trying multiple font editors, I decided to download FontCreator. It is worth every penny, as it turned out to be efficient, user friendly and reliable.
Daniel Escudero
I have used FontCreator since 2003 to create fonts for printing and the web with all of the accents needed for Pāḷi and many other languages including Vietnamese.
Bhikkhu Pesala
When inspiration grabs me, I want at my fingertips the perfect tool capable of translating my inspiration into something tangible. FontCreator is that tool.
Steve Boewe
I use FontCreator to create non-standard Chinese characters for scholarly publications in the field of Chinese grammatology. For my work, this font editor is indispensable.
David Holm
FontCreator rocks! Creating fonts has certainly got a fairly steep learning curve to it, but if any font editor helps take the edge off that, it’s High-Logic’s FontCreator.
Ron Koster
FontCreator is a dream to use. The OpenType Designer provides valuable visual feedback, crucial to my work. Quite simply, this is a stellar program that comes with stellar staff support.
Twin Page Productions
I use Font Creator software from the High Logic family for 8 years running. I like the font editor for its ease of use & convenience of upgrade.
Ethan Chia
I like the intuitiveness of FontCreator. Everything in this font editor is exactly where it should be.
Hanoch Waldenberg
I use FontCreator Home Edition; a very nice program to create your own fonts and to modify existing fonts. Easy to use, even for a layman. If it really sticks times, the support is also top notch.
Günther Jockisch
I would say the best font creator software in the world that is extremely easy to start with. Double thumbs up!!
Ayman Siddiqui
Since the first day I started fonts, I found High-Logic's Font Creator and have never looked anywhere else. It's the perfect font editor developed by some of the best people in the industry, and their success has made my business succeed!
Robert R. Barba
I have been using FontCreator to design special symbols which I then import to a music editor software. It helps me fingering guitar music scores. It is straightforward to use and looks really neat in print.
Tom Semkow
Even though I use multiple tools for font creation, I always rely on the Font Validation Wizard as a final check for all my fonts.
Raymond Larabie
FontCreator is the ideal tool to create fonts, particularly single line (open contour) fonts. Whilst having every option you could imagine to create and tweak fonts, the learning curve isn't steep, and new users can be up and running quickly.
Andrew Hunt
FontCreator has the right mix of precision and intuitive use that makes it ideal for a hobbyist who is also a retired engineer. That mix gives me the best of both worlds.
John Barry
Your font editor helps me and my clients to create beautiful designs. I really appreciate it.
Elron Bucai
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