FontCreator has the powerful
font-creation tools that typographers and graphic designers require, a nd an intuitive interface
that even allows beginners to become productive immediately.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
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
* Convert vector and bitmap
images (e.g. a signature, logo or handwriting) 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
* Preview fonts before
installing
* Install fonts in Windows
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