Metrics and Kerning window for automatic or manual spacing and kerning with multi-line preview, right-to-left support and AFM/PFM metric import/export (improved in version 3). Lock any layer to prevent accidental modification of outline or metrics (new in version 3). Place reference outlines into the Mask layer (new in version 3). Import bitmap images or BDF bitmap fonts into the new Background layer (new in version 3). Make font variations with automatic glyph and metric transformations such as scaling or slanting. True support for open contours and Fontographer-compatible tangent points (new in version 3). Precise glyph measurement with the Meter mode ruler. VectorPaint tools for realistic bitmap-like outline editing using shaped brush strokes (improved in version 3). Industry-standard Bézier drawing tools familiar to users of Fontographer, Adobe Illustrator or Freehand (improved in version 3). Open and generate fonts with up to 65,000 glyphs.Įdit outline glyphs using more than intuitive 20 tools. Make your own text fonts as well as dingbat or clipart fonts.Įasy-to-use intuitive user interface with high-quality smooth glyph display (improved in version 3).
Professional-quality fonts and industry-standard font technology: the engine of TypeTool is based on FontLab Studio, the professional font editor used by numerous font foundries worldwide.Īdd logos, signatures, ligatures, old-style figures, fractions, currency symbols, punctuation or international characters to your fonts. Note: The ability to edit the advanced typographic OpenType Layout features is not included in TypeTool, so other tools such as FontLab Studio, Microsoft VOLT or Adobe FDK for OpenType need to be used. Open and generate PostScript-flavored (CFF/.otf) and TrueType-flavored (.ttf) OpenType fonts (new in version 3). Open and generate PostScript Type 1 and TrueType fonts.
Create new fonts or modify existing fonts, open any fonts installed on your system (improved in version 3).