Fontographer for Mac OS X

"Fontographer — Font Editor for Designers"

With Fontographer, 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

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 wish 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).