The products listed here are priced US$150 or more per commercial license.
The leading comprehensive professional font editor.
Suitable for design, metrics & kerning, conversion, blending, hinting, production, technical work, testing.
Automation: batch, Python
Mac & Win. Type 1, Multiple Master, TrueType and OpenType.
High-end Asian font editor based on the FontLab core.
Suitable for design, metrics & kerning, conversion, blending, hinting, production, technical work, testing.
Automation: batch, Python
Mac & Win. Type 1, Multiple Master, TrueType, TTC, CID and OpenType.
Classic font editor for graphic designers and desktop publishers. Easy-to-use interface and superb drawing tools.
Suitable for design, metrics & kerning, production.
Mac & Win. Type 1.
Suite of tools originating from the famous URW Ikarus & Kernus products for various aspects of Type 1 and OpenType creation. BezierMaster, BlendMaster, ContourMaster, DataMaster, IkarusMaster, KernMaster and TraceMaster are available as single modules or as a suite.
Suitable for design, metrics & kerning, conversion, blending, production, testing.
Automation: batch
Mac & Win. Type 1 and OpenType.
DTL OTMaster is a visual editor allowing you to edit the low-level structure of OpenType fonts. It allows the user to view the OpenType table structure and also includes several useful GUI modules: a font viewer, a glyph viewer and editor, a kerning viewer and editor, and OpenType Layout table viewer and editor.
Suitable for design, metrics & kerning, production, testing.
Mac & Win. OpenType.
Application and Python toolkit for creation of large font families, integrates with FontLab Studio.
Suitable for design, blending.
Automation: Python
Mac & (partly) Win.
The products listed here are priced at less than US$150 per commercial license.
Basic font editor based on the FontLab Studio core.
Suitable for design, metrics & kerning, conversion, production.
Mac & Win. Type 1, TrueType and OpenType.
Basic font editor.
Suitable for design, metrics & kerning, production.
Win. TrueType and (partially) OpenType.
The products listed here are available free of charge. Some are opensource, some are available under a closed-source license, and for some, signing an additional license may be required before obtaining a copy.
Opensource visual font editor, a bit awkward to use but technically quite capable.
Suitable for design, metrics & kerning, conversion, production, technical work.
Automation: Python, custom macro language
Mac, Win, Linux. Type 1, TrueType, OpenType.
DTL OTMaster Light is an advanced viewer allowing you to preview the low-level structure of OpenType fonts. It allows the user to view the OpenType table structure and also includes several useful GUI modules: a font viewer, a glyph viewer, a kerning viewer, and OpenType Layout table viewer.
Suitable for testing.
Mac & Win. OpenType.
Free visual editor for advanced TrueType hinting.
Suitable for hinting, technical work, testing.
Mac & Win. TrueType and OpenType TT.
Free visual editor for advanced OpenType Layout features.
Suitable for production, technical work, testing.
Win. OpenType TT and (partially) PS.
Free visual testing application for TrueType and OpenType fonts.
Suitable for testing.
Win. TrueType and OpenType.
Opensource commandline tools and Python library for various aspects of technical font development.
Suitable for production, technical work, testing.
Automation: batch, Python
Mac, Win, Linux. Type 1, TrueType, OpenType.
Free Python toolkit that integrates with FontLab Studio and FontForge for programmatic type design. Includes FontTools/TTX.
Suitable for design, metrics & kerning, conversion, blending.
Automation: Python
Mac and (partially) Win.
Free Python toolkit that integrates with FontLab Studio for automated testing and quality assurance.
Suitable for testing.
Automation: Python
Mac and Win.
Free set of commandline tools for converting Type 1 to OpenType PS (.otf), proofing and testing of OpenType fonts. Includes FontTools/TTX.
Suitable for conversion, production, technical work, testing.
Automation: batch, Python
Mac & Win. Type 1, TrueType, OpenType.
Free set of commandline tools for various aspects of (mostly) technical TrueType-related font development, including adding of AAT tables.
Suitable for technical work, testing.
Automation: batch
Mac. TrueType and (partially) OpenType.
Opensource set of commandline tools for various aspects of technical font development.
Suitable for conversion, technical work, testing.
Automation: batch
Mac, Win, Linux. Type 1, Multiple Master and (partially) OpenType PS.
Series of commandline tools for various aspects of technical TrueType and OpenType TT font development.
Suitable for technical work, testing.
Automation: batch
Win. TrueType and (partially) OpenType.
Free visual editor for various naming fields inside of TrueType and OpenType fonts.
Suitable for production.
Win. TrueType and OpenType.
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Versatile free font manager with iTunes-like interface. Simplifies work with large font collections, allows to filter the collection using various criteria.
Windows Explorer extension allowing to preview many additional aspects of TrueType and OpenType fonts such as font names, OpenType features, supported character sets.
Suitable for testing.
Win. TrueType and OpenType.
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