FontCreator – FAQ

If you have created a font yourself (without using anything from other fonts), it is your property. You can share and sell it if you want.

Word-processors often use autocorrect to convert the straight apostrophe (') and straight quote or inches character (") to typographical quotation marks (“), (”), (‘) and (’), also known as smart or curly quotes. If your font doesn't have mappings to these characters, you will see rectangles instead. When the quotes aren't showing at all, you need to add outlines to the corresponding glyphs. Make sure that your font contains all of the recommended glyphs as explained in the user manual.

The font name is stored inside the font, so changing the file name won't work. To change the font name, go to Font Properties panel. From there select the Font tab, which allows you to change the font family name. Then export the font.

No, our font editor runs on Windows only. However fonts created with our software can be used on Windows, Mac OS X, Linux, and in all modern web browsers.

The quality has a lot to do with hinting. The hints are what make a font look good at low resolutions. FontCreator can automatically add hinting information to your TrueType based  fonts. Another solution is to enable smoothing which is available from the Font Properties dialog.

True symbol fonts are special fonts. Windows still distributes some, but nowadays such fonts are considered legacy. better make a regular font and use code points that are meant for symbols. There are still several special fonts, that should only include symbols, signs, signatures, pictures, decorations, arrows and bullets. Symbol fonts do not form words so line breaks can occur after any character code. Most spell checkers don't check symbol font-formatted content. There are Symbol fonts on the market that contain (Latin) characters. Such fonts do cause problems as explained above (e.g. wrong line breaks and no spell checking). In such case you should contact the font vendor.