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Fontographer — Font Editor for Designers |
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Fontographer 5
Font editor for designers. Version 5.0 for Mac and Windows |
Make Your Own Fonts
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.
- Create new fonts
- Customize existing fonts, add extra characters
- Fine-tune spacing and kerning
- Fix problems in bad fonts
- Convert old fonts to a new format
Screenshots
Editing fonts 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 |
Glyph design 1 | 2 | Metrics | OpenType | Export | Splashscreen |
Main Features
- Open and generate Type 1, TrueType, OpenType, Type 3 and Multiple Master fonts
- Exchange working files with FontLab Studio, TypeTool or ScanFont using the FontLab VFB format
- Copy-paste or import outline artwork or bitmap images (with customizable autotracing)
- View all of your font’s characters in the Font Window
- Examine or modify the font encoding
- Design or change any character in the Glyph Window
- Edit metrics and kerning in the Metrics Window
- Easily set up and modify technical font parameters, font naming and linespacing settings in a comprehensive Font Info dialog
- Automatically improve the font’s screen quality using sophisticated autohinting algorithms
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).
Get Fontographer 5 now!
UPGRADE! Upgrade from FOG 4.7.x for just US$149 and from FOG 3.x, 4.0.x or 4.1.x for US$199. Upgrade now!
BUY! It’s US$399, scroll down for detailed purchase options. "My hopes for new development
have just been realized with the release of Fontographer 5.0 in 2010 - all the simplicity has been retained with a range of new features." - Michael Everson, EverType
Choose the right product for you!
Want to compare features between Fontographer and Fontlab’s other font editors? See the product comparison. |
Super Font Creator
New: Fontographer 5!
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.
New Features in Version 5
The highlights of the new Fontographer 5 version include:
User interface
- NEW! Glyph antialiasing (smoothing) in all application windows
- IMPROVED! Glyph window zoom level up to 1600%
- IMPROVED! Radically redesigned and updated, easy-to-use Font Info dialog for editing the relevant technical parameters for all font formats, including OpenType, with updated, intelligent, automatic generation of OpenType-compatible font family naming and of cross-plattform linespacing values
- NEW! Powerful Spotlight-like glyph search feature that allows you to quickly highlight or select glyphs based on the Unicode codepoint, glyph name or Unicode character name (including wildcards)
- NEW! Easy access to the unencoded glyphs (OpenType alternates) using the FontLab prefix convention
- IMPROVED! Metrics and kerning editing in the Metrics Window
- IMPROVED! Manual editing of Type 1 hints
Font formats and international support
- NEW! Font generator and reader for OpenType fonts (both PS/.otf and TT/.ttf flavor) with 20,000+ glyphs
- NEW! Reads Mac Type 1 font suitcases (FFIL), Mac datafork suitcases (.dfont) and TrueType Collections (.ttc)
- IMPROVED! Opening and generation of Type 1 fonts, using cutting-edge FontLab technology
- IMPROVED! Full Unicode compatibility (fonts and user interface), including support for the Unicode Standard version 5.2
- NEW! OpenType Layout features can be defined using the most recent Adobe FDK for OpenType (AFDKO) version 2.5 syntax
- NEW! Modern OpenType-compatible encodings and a full set of international encodings
- NEW! Support for OpenType digital signatures (DSIG)
- NEW! Reads and exports the FontLab VFB format for easy integration into a FontLab-based workflow
- NEW! Great screen font quality thanks to the integrated Adobe PostScript autohinter and the excellent FontLab TrueType autohinter
- NEW! Integrated Adobe Type 1 and Microsoft TrueType rasterizers for high-quality bitmap generation from hinted outlines, and the ability to export the bitmaps in BDF format
Operating system and application support
- IMPROVED! Runs natively on Mac OS X (universal binary), Windows XP, Windows Vista, and Windows 7
- IMPROVED! Copy-paste and import-export of Illustrator and Freehand outline artwork
- IMPROVED! Copy-paste and import bitmap images for autotracing
…plus countless additional improvements and bug fixes.
This is the release that the font software community has been waiting for more than a decade! |
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Fontographer Specifications |
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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
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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 Windows: Modern Intel-compatible computer with 64 MB RAM and a hard drive, Windows XP, Vista or 7. Fontographer 5 for Windows is a 32-bit Windows application, but can run on 64-bit.
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.
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"Every design studio should have Fontographer 5 for its wealth of font creation, editing, fixing, and conversion abilities." — Macworld , 6 October 2010 , rated 4.5 out of 5 Mice "The engineers at FontLab have produced what is without question the best
upgrade ever to the venerable Fontographer program. The update of the
interface retains the familiar Fontographer feel while providing a more
modern look, and there are quite a number of improvements and new
features. It's obvious there has been a lot of thought, time and effort
put into this upgrade, and I am very grateful for all that work.
My favorite new and improved features are the character antialiasing,
OpenType and Unicode support, the ability to work with FontLab Studio
.vfb file formats and the new hinting capabilities. Just these few
things alone are going to make my workflow so much better, and they are
but a small part of the long list of improvements.
I highly recommend Fontographer 5 to anyone who is considering upgrading
from earlier versions or is considering learning how to make fonts.
Experienced users will love it, and I feel that even a new user who is
skilled with other drawing programs would quickly adapt to using it."
— George Thomas PAGE magazine , 20 June 2010, "Fontographer is Back!" "Fontographer has served as a critical component of the font outline
creating/editing workflow for a large number of the world's leading
type foundries for over two decades. FontLab's recent efforts to revamp
and enhance Fontographer is important, and timely, in that it ensures
that these same type foundries can continue to use this important
application on contemporary operating systems."
—Dr. Ken Lunde (Senior Computer Scientist, Adobe Systems Incorporated) "Fontographer 5.0, a Font Software product from fontlab.com, gets a 5 Stars SoftSea Rating"
—Softsea.com , July 2010  "The new FOG5 is head-and-shoulders above my previous mainstay, FOG4.7. I was productive immediately, since all the familiar keyboard shortcuts and tools are still there. There are many new features, such as larger zoom(!!), enhanced Font Information settings, new formats for output (.otf for Mac and Windows), and especially the larger, clearer whole-font display. Very highly recommended for font designers -- and graphic artists who want to fine-tune or enhance a font. Works like a Mac program should. A real winner."
—Dave Thompson (President, Educational Fontware) “Fontographer’s virtue is in its relative ease of use. For designers used to programs such as Illustrator and Photoshop, Fontographer's tools are intuitive and easy to understand.
— Computer Arts, March 2006
“What was the first Bézier drawing program for Macintosh computers? No, it wasn't Illustrator. Nor was it FreeHand. The answer is Fontographer.”
— creativepro.com, Feb 2001
“Fontographer may be largely responsible for a creative burst of type design unmatched in hundreds of years.”
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Download the Fontographer 5.0 for Mac OS X demo version for by clicking any one of these links (11+MB, same file, different servers). Demo limitation: fonts are only partially saved and generated fonts are watermarked. All fonts created by the demo are 100% valid and can be tested in any application. This application requires Mac OS X 10.4 or higher.
 MacOS demo: US1 | US2 | EU
Download the Fontographer 5 for Mac OS X user manual (PDF format, ~6.2MB) by right-clicking or Ctrl+clicking one of these links and choosing "Save link as" or "Download linked file":
MacOS Manual: US1 | US2 | EU
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Download the Fontographer 5 for Windows demo version by clicking on any of the links below. (7+MB, same file, different servers). Demo limitation: fonts are only partially saved and generated fonts are watermarked. All fonts created by the demo are 100% valid and can be tested in any application. This application requires Windows XP or higher.
Windows demo: US1 | US2 | EU
Download the Fontographer 5 for Windows user manual (PDF format, ~4.2MB) - Sorry, the Windows manual is not ready yet. But the Macintosh manual (to the left) is almost the same except for screenshots.
Windows Manual: US1 | US2 | EU
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It takes up to a day to process an order. Usually we can get it done within a few hours and you will receive your serial number the same day. Occasionally it won't be until the next business day. |
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Already a Fontographer user? Looking for a more powerful professional font editor with OpenType feature support, scripting, and manual hinting? Upgrade to FontLab Studio for US$249! |
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