Font Tools
Find font tools used by professional type designers around the world. Font editors, font identifiers, font management, font convertors, font cleanups and many font utilities to help you do special things with fonts that otherwise would take unusual time and effort.
ScanFont
PC & Mac $99.00. Download Demo
ScanFont takes bitmap images such as photos, scanned handwriting samples, clipart, etc.; removes the background; separates the characters; autotraces the glyphs into vector characters; and exports them into a font. It is a plugin for (requires) TypeTool or FontLab Studio font editors.
FontLab Studio
PC & Mac $99 - $499. Download Demo
FontLab Studio is a professional font editor for advanced typography. It can import and export TrueType, Type 1, and OpenType fonts. It has extensive glyph drawing and editing tools, advanced metrics, Multiple Master and font transformation features. A font manipulation macro language is included, as is an OpenType feature editor. FontLab supports virtually all font encodings and codepages and can import/export fonts with up to 6400 characters.
WebReady
PC & Mac $79.95. Download Demo
Don’t let yourself be restricted to generic fonts like Arial, Times New Roman, etc. on your website. WebReady creates web headlines in your choice of font - Photofont, TrueType, Type 1 or OpenType. The user sees your headlines in the type you want, yet the text remains computer-readable for search engines, indexing, copy/paste, etc.
Fontographer
PC & Mac $349 - $499. Download Demo
Fontographer is a classic font editor intended for use by publishers and designers who need powerful typographic tools in an easy-to-use package. Easily expand existing fonts to include fractions, symbols, foreign characters, and logos in Type 1, Type 3, and TrueType fonts, or create an entire typeface from scratch.
BitFonter
PC & Mac $99 - $499. Download Demo
BitFonter is a full-featured bitmap font editor. It can import and export virtually any format bitmap font and can convert vector fonts into bitmap fonts. With BitFonter you can do almost anything with bitmap fonts. You can design, edit or color them. You can apply special effects. And of course you can embed your bitmap fonts into TrueType or OpenType fonts with the help of FontLab Studio.
SigMaker
PC & Mac $9.95-$44.95. Download Demo
Sigmaker autotraces signatures, symbols or other bitmaps and converts them into vector glyphs. It then adds these glyphs to any TrueType font and allows the user to select a keystroke for it. The new glyph can then be typed like any other.
TransType
PC & Mac $97 - $179. Download Demo
TransType is the most advanced font format convertor for TrueType, Type 1, OpenType, Macintosh and Windows fonts. You can convert to and from both platforms and formats, including multiple master fonts.
TypeTool
PC & Mac $99.00. Download Demo
TypeTool is a basic font editor for small font manipulation jobs. It can import and export TrueType, Type 1, and OpenType fonts. It has extensive glyph drawing and editing tools and manual and automatic kerning capabilities.
- Font identification website http://www.identifont.com
- TrueType specifications and tools http://www.microsoft.com/typography
- Adobe type technology http://www.adobe.com/devnet/opentype
- FontNuke - font cache cleanup for Mac OS X http://www.jamapi.com/pr/fn
- Suitcase™ font management utility http://www.extensis.com
- Top class font manager for OpenType, TrueType, PostScript Type1 and printer fonts - Typograf
- Font Agent™ font management utility http://www.fontagent.com
- MainType™ font management utility http://www.high-logic.com/maintype.html
- Free photoshop tutorials, desktop publishing and many other graphics tutorials http://www.sketchpad.net/default.htm
- Font information and tools including kerning, management, and identification http://www.fontinfo.net
- Best Vista Downloads - Windows Vista software, freeware and shareware http://www.bestvistadownloads.com
- Printer's Apprentice font management utility- http://www.loseyourmind.com/pa80.asp
- X-Fonter - Font manager for Windows http://www.blacksunsoftware.com
