It is designed with lettering artists in mind, with tools to help one trace designs to produce smooth curves. īéziers is a vector editor for digitizing lettering, sketches and other artwork. Some of his BDF fonts can be downloaded here. Fine's free X11 BDF (bitmap font) editor.
I guess that it is a portable younger brother of FontStruct. Luca Pedrotti has used it to make modular typefaces.
Īn app for the iPhone for making simple geometric images, created by Buro Destruct. Martin Weber's free program for Windows and UNIX machines for converting bitmaps into outlines. Finally, it sells a font editor for Japanese fonts, called LFEdit. Among its type families is LSN or Lambda Truetype Font.
Japanese foundry that markets about ten Latin and twenty full kanji fonts. Si Daniels (Microsoft) took the participants on an interesting tour of web fonts.Badani liked the talk by Tim Ahrens on Multiple Master in the design of font families.The demo of BitFonter 3 by FontLab was also interesting.Daniel Rodríguez Valero from the University of Barcelona presented Constructor, a glyph editor based on calligraphic curves.Blokland, the former using FontLab Studio while the latter showcased FontMaster. It was fun to see the font development comparison between Miguel Sousa and Frank E.
Just as at TypoTechnica 2007 in Frankfurt, we are still waiting for the announced demo of Superpolator.Sousa showed Adobe's FDK (font development kit). Adam Twardoch and Miguel Sousa were the most active and frequent speakers.Since it is in French, I will loosely translate it for my readers: Its TypeTech section was reported on by Christophe Badani here. ĪTypI 2007 was held at the Faculty of Arts and Architecture at the University of Brighton in Brighton, UK, from 12-16 september 2007. Alternative licenses, trading off the up-front fee for higher royalties, may also be negotiated." See also this Seybold report from 1989. Commercial type designers must pay a much higher price: $55,000 plus a royalty of $3.40 per face. Hint-insertion tools are an extra $750 the Optical Scaling module is a $1,000 option. However, he can prepare fonts and logos for in-house use. That is, the user cannot make fonts for sale. A basic package, comparable to Fontographer 2.0 in scope, will cost $449 for a private license. A blurb taken from the ATF text: "ATF Type Designer I will come in several variants. It is rumoured that this program incorporated some of the old ATF optical scaling ideas. The developers included Jens Alfke and Henry Schneiker. Įarly typeface editor by the ATF/Kingsley people, which was capable of handling truetype, PostScript type 1 and 3, BDF bitmaps, Mac bitmaps, and Windows bitmaps. įont editor by Pyrus/FontLab for Asian type design. ParamTT is a the complementary font design tool to create and manipulate LiveType characters. You may also find some fun font applets at his site.
Useful for creating multiple master fonts.
LiveType is font creation software that uses a parametric model for the fonts and allows the user to specify any number of constraints. ĭeveloper (with Ari Rappoport) of LiveType at the Hebrew University in Jerusalem. See here for Antarctica (2007) by Czar Choi.
I estimate that the archive gets about 50 fonts per day. All fonts created are of the inner city graffiti kind, so this is not meant to be a professional tool. (Alphabet Synthesis Machine is a co-production of Art21, Inc., New York City, and The Arts Company, Cambridge, MA) It has a font archive with over 7,000 fonts created by visitors.
The validation features help you locate and fix possible outline issues.įontCreator is a true native font editor, so there is no need to buy or install third-party tools or extensions.TYPE DESIGN INFORMATION PAGE last updated onĪ free on-line truetype font editor, developed by Golan Levin, with the help of Jonathan Feinberg and Cassidy Curtis. This professional font editor supports both quadratic- and cubic-based contours and has several smart features to ensure smooth connections where you need them. The OpenType proofing tool allows you to quickly track down and correct text layout issues. OpenType features are preserved on opening a font, and you can use the OpenType Designer to visual edit the features and lookups. You can even make variable fonts by defining axes and outline layers. At any time, you can preview your typefaces before installation. With FontCreator you can also fix character code-points, font names, glyph names, and kerning pairs. You can import (scanned) images of your signature or company logo, or make a font from your own handwriting. You can simply add missing characters, or select an existing character, and modify its appearance. When you create or open a font, FontCreator displays an overview of all available characters.