Popular font editor for Global Village
FontCreator has been downloaded over 5 million times and is considered a popular font editor in the global village. Create and edit open types and web fonts. The advanced feature set makes it the preferred tool for professionals, and its intuitive interface is simple enough for users at any professional level.
When you create or open a font, the font creator displays an overview of all available characters.
You can simply add missing characters or select existing characters and modify their appearance. You can import (scan) images of signatures or company logos, or create fonts with your own handwriting. Through FontCreator, you can also fix character code points, font names, font style names, and corner line pairs.
At any time, you can preview your font before installation. Preserve the open type function when opening fonts, and you can use the open type designer for visual editing and searching.
The OpenType proofreading tool allows you to quickly track and correct text layout issues. This professional font editor supports quadratic and cubic contours, and has multiple intelligent functions to ensure smooth connections when needed. The validation feature helps you identify and fix potential outline issues.
FontCreator is a true native font editor, so there is no need to purchase or install third-party tools or extensions.
- Font Overview and Categories
The glyph and character category panel allows you to quickly and easily access glyphs, character subsets, and Unicode ranges.
- Open Type, Real Type, and Web Font
The font creator supports open type, real type, and web open font formats (WOFF and WOFF2) fonts, which can be used in Windows, Mac OS X, Linux, and all modern web browsers.
- Design high-quality fonts
The Standard and Professional editions include font verification functionality, allowing you to improve the quality of fonts by locating and solving common font problems.
Optimizing the glyph contour will reduce the number of points that make up the contour.
High quality vector graphics can be easily imported. You can even copy and paste between the font creator and your favorite vector editing software.
- Import raster (bitmap) images
Import (scan) images and convert them into glyphs. Create your own handwriting font by scanning handwriting and importing fonts.
Font Creator is a multifunctional font editor that allows you to create scalable color fonts, supporting COLR and SVG color extensions. This allows you to create multi-color glyphs for systems that support it, while maintaining backward compatibility for systems that do not support it.
Learn how to create color fonts and font creation, read our online tutorial about making open type color fonts, and take a look at this color font demonstration page.
The intuitive OpenType designer allows you to easily generate and modify OpenType layout features for font replacement and positioning. The built-in anchor manager makes it easy to add and edit tags to the base and tags for tag positioning!
Manually add corner pairs to fonts that support individual glyphs and glyph classes. Or let the automatic car take care of you in both the standard and professional versions.
- Powerful Conversion Wizard
The Standard and Professional versions come equipped with a powerful conversion wizard, allowing you to easily convert fonts with just a few clicks. Automatically convert fonts to Italic or 'bold'. Add characters for other languages, small capitals, etc.
- Open type function proofreading
Use font creators and interactive proofreading tools to test the open layout function. It uses an advanced shaping engine that allows you to view, create, edit, and test even the most complex fonts.
The optical indicators feature in the Professional Edition simplifies one of the most complex and time-consuming tasks in font design. It analyzes a set of the most common characters and finds the best left and right bearings for each glyph.
- Complete composite material
The Standard and Professional versions allow for intelligent generation of over 3000 (mostly accented) composite character outlines. It supports composite data definition and anchoring positioning.
