It also reads Mac Type 1 font suitcases (FFIL), Mac datafork suitcases (.dfont), and TrueType Collections (.ttc). With a few mouse clicks, you can convert a font to OpenType, TrueType (Mac or Windows), PostScript Type 1 or 3 (Mac, Windows, or Unix/ASCII), or the now-defunct Multiple Master (Mac or Windows).
You can also use Fontographer to professionally convert fonts from one format to another. Its View By pop-up menu provides 12 different ways to look at your glyphs, including Character, Keystroke, Unicode value and width. All these features can be lifesavers when the font you’re using in a project isn’t as expansive or professional as you need.įontographer’s Font Window displays all the glyphs that make up a font. You can also add new glyphs to an existing font, such as a company logo, icons for signage, or a missing character. If you don’t like the kerning or letterspacing of a font, it can automatically generate new spacing, or let you manually generate optimal spacing. It can also create a condensed version of a font (that isn’t simply horizontally scaled), and generate true composite fractions from existing single numbers. If you need a heavier or lighter version of an existing font, it can generate one for you. Illustrator ( ) or FreeHand, Fontographer also provides tremendously helpful tools for graphic design studios.įor example, if you have a thin version of a font and a thick version, but need something in-between, it can generate new fonts with thicknesses between the two. Besides providing all the tools necessary to create a font from scratch, including generating glyphs from scanned drawings and copy/paste from Adobe
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