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Easy yet powerful font editor
With Fontographer 5, it’s easy to design new typefaces and to customize existing fonts, and the result will be high-quality fonts that can reliably work across different operating systems.
Main Features
Created with the designers in mind
Unlike any other font editor on the market, Fontographer 5 combines an easy, intuitive and very efficient user interface with our mature, state-of-the-art font creation technology, making it a perfect font editor for graphic designers, DTP professionals, calligraphers and type designers who do not with to dive into the technical details of font creation.
Ease of use
Originally developed by the same team that stood behind Freehand’s success, Fontographer (or "FOG" as some call it) was the first software product on the Mac ever to include Bézier drawing tools, and has been famous for its clean, robust and easy-to-use user interface ever since.
Professional Font Software
Thanks to the completely restored font generation engine, Fontographer builds PostScript Type 1, TrueType and OpenType fonts of the same quality as our high-end FontLab Studio product (it also supports less-popular formats such as Type 3 or Multiple Master).
In version 5 (available for both Mac OS X and Windows), we’ve made Fontographer even easier to use: without specialized knowledge about font formats and font technology, any FOG user is able to create professional-quality fonts.
The secret behind this is our own unparalleled font technology know-how. The mature FontLab Studio engine, combined with brand-new sophisticated algorithms, provide the technical underpinnings for the new Fontographer 5. In fact, FOG 5 is even able to read and export FontLab VFB files, so exchanging documents between different font editors is easy!
Looks smooth, rocks hard
While FontLab Fontographer 4.7 was a small improvement over version 4.1, the new version 5 is truly a major overhaul of the product. We’ve remained close to the Fontographer spirit yet brought the improvements necessary for a modern font creator in the 21st century.
Our work on Fontographer 5 was like a restoration of a classic car. We’ve kept the familiar, elegant body that users love, giving it just a subtle facelift. And then we’ve replaced the old inefficient engine by modern cutting-edge technology.
Seasoned users of Fontographer 3 and 4 will quickly find themselves at home, and new users will find the product very easy to learn.
The highlights of the new Fontographer 5 version include:
User interface
Operating system and application support
Fontographer Specifications
Imports fonts with 20,000+ glyphs as OpenType PS (.otf), Win TrueType / OpenType TT (.ttf), Win Type 1 (.pfb + .pfm/.afm), ASCII/Unix Type 1 (.pfa + .afm), Mac Type 1* (LWFN), Mac Type 1 Suitcase* (FFIL), Mac TrueType* (.dfont or FFIL), TrueType Collections (.ttc), Win Multiple Master (.pfb + .mmm), Mac Multiple Master*, FontLab 3.0-4.6/TypeTool/AsiaFont Studio/ScanFont/FontLab Studio (.vfb), Also imports glyphs as Adobe Illustrator 8 EPS (.ai, .eps), TIFF, BMP.
Exports fonts with 20,000+ glyphs as OpenType PS (.otf), Win TrueType / OpenType TT (.ttf), Win Type 1 (.pfb + .pfm/.afm), ASCII/Unix Type 1 (.pfa + .afm), Mac Type 1* (LWFN), Mac Type 1 Suitcase* (FFIL), Mac TrueType* (FFIL), Win Multiple Master (.pfb + .mmm), Mac Multiple Master*, FontLab 3.0-4.6/TypeTool/AsiaFont Studio/ScanFont/TransType/FontLab Studio (.vfb), Bitmap Distribution Format (.bdf). Also exports glyphs as Adobe Illustrator 8 EPS (.ai + .eps).
*) Only available in the Mac OS X version of the application
Note: OpenType Layout features can be specified as an external text file in the Adobe FDK for OpenType (AFDKO) version 2.5 format. OpenType Layout features are not preserved when an existing OpenType font is opened in Fontographer.
530+ pages of documentation (manual and technotes).
System requirements
Fontographer 5 for Mac: Intel- or PowerPC-based Mac computer with 64 MB RAM and a hard drive. Mac OS X 10.4 or higher. Fontographer 5 for Mac is a 32-bit universal binary application.