FontLab is a high-quality, professional font editor software.
FontLab is a professional-grade font editor that offers a comprehensive set of tools and features for creating and editing high-quality fonts. With support for both TrueType and Type 1 fonts, FontLab allows you to work with multiple master fonts with up to four axes, and offers both manual and automatic hinting and kerning. Additionally, it boasts extensive language and encoding support, ensuring maximum flexibility for your font design needs.
One of the key features of FontLab is its import and export capabilities. It supports import formats such as PC/Mac Type 1, PC/Mac TrueType, EPS, OpenType, and can handle up to 64000 characters. Export formats include PC/Mac Type 1, PC/Mac TrueType, EPS, OpenType, and can handle up to 6400 characters. This makes it a highly versatile tool for importing and exporting fonts of different formats.
In terms of tools, FontLab provides a range of essential features, including draw, erase, vector paint, mirror, composite, set start point, interpolate, envelope, remove overlap, merge contours, snap to guides, check connections, nodes at extremes, meter, and TrueType and Type 1 manual hinting. Additionally, it has filters such as bold, outline, side bearings control, scale, slant, rotate, and autohint, among others. All of these tools and filters are highly programmable, allowing you to customize your workflow and apply them to any range of characters, including the whole font or set of fonts.
FontLab also has a user-friendly interface with features like glyph, font chart, preview/kerning/metrics, preview, OpenType, classes, map, macro editor, OpenType sample, and anchors. The encoding options are Unicode, custom, ANSI, ASCII, and virtually all known code pages and encodings, including Chinese, Japanese, and Korean double-byte code pages. It also offers several printouts, including character, preview, font table, kerning, glyph properties, and waterfall preview.
The latest release of FontLab comes with several enhancements, including autogeneration of basic OpenType Features for T1 fonts, level 2, and level 3 EPS import/export, improved blend algorithms, MM-compatible Type1->TrueType conversion, TrueType hinting of Multiple Master fonts, and better user interface.
Overall, FontLab is an excellent tool for any professional or amateur font designer who wants to create high-quality fonts with ease. The only requirement for its use is CarbonLib for Classic.
One of the key features of FontLab is its import and export capabilities. It supports import formats such as PC/Mac Type 1, PC/Mac TrueType, EPS, OpenType, and can handle up to 64000 characters. Export formats include PC/Mac Type 1, PC/Mac TrueType, EPS, OpenType, and can handle up to 6400 characters. This makes it a highly versatile tool for importing and exporting fonts of different formats.
In terms of tools, FontLab provides a range of essential features, including draw, erase, vector paint, mirror, composite, set start point, interpolate, envelope, remove overlap, merge contours, snap to guides, check connections, nodes at extremes, meter, and TrueType and Type 1 manual hinting. Additionally, it has filters such as bold, outline, side bearings control, scale, slant, rotate, and autohint, among others. All of these tools and filters are highly programmable, allowing you to customize your workflow and apply them to any range of characters, including the whole font or set of fonts.
FontLab also has a user-friendly interface with features like glyph, font chart, preview/kerning/metrics, preview, OpenType, classes, map, macro editor, OpenType sample, and anchors. The encoding options are Unicode, custom, ANSI, ASCII, and virtually all known code pages and encodings, including Chinese, Japanese, and Korean double-byte code pages. It also offers several printouts, including character, preview, font table, kerning, glyph properties, and waterfall preview.
The latest release of FontLab comes with several enhancements, including autogeneration of basic OpenType Features for T1 fonts, level 2, and level 3 EPS import/export, improved blend algorithms, MM-compatible Type1->TrueType conversion, TrueType hinting of Multiple Master fonts, and better user interface.
Overall, FontLab is an excellent tool for any professional or amateur font designer who wants to create high-quality fonts with ease. The only requirement for its use is CarbonLib for Classic.
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