TypeTool for Windows

"TypeTool — Font Editor for Beginners"

TypeTool is our basic font editor for Mac OS and for Windows. For students, hobby typographers and creative professionals who occasionally need to create or customize fonts.

Create new fonts or modify existing fonts, open any fonts installed on your system (improved in version 3).

Open and generate PostScript Type 1 and TrueType fonts.

Open and generate PostScript-flavored (CFF/.otf) and TrueType-flavored (.ttf) OpenType fonts (new in version 3). Note: The ability to edit the advanced typographic OpenType Layout features is not included in TypeTool, so other tools such as FontLab Studio, Microsoft VOLT or Adobe FDK for OpenType need to be used.

Professional-quality fonts and industry-standard font technology: the engine of TypeTool is based on FontLab Studio, the professional font editor used by numerous font foundries worldwide.

includes support for OpenType fonts with up to 65,000 glyphs, Unicode 5.0 support, new bitmap Background and outline Mask layers, improved Bézier drawing with open contours and tangent points, multi-line metrics and kerning editing, superb screen quality autohinting, better printouts, and much more.

Metrics and Kerning window for automatic or manual spacing and kerning with multi-line preview, right-to-left support and AFM/PFM metric import/export (improved in version 3).

Import and export individual glyphs in EPS format, copy-paste exchange with Adobe Illustrator (improved in version 3).

Font Info dialog gives you access to various font properties such as menu and family names, supported codepages or linespacing metrics.

Rearrange, rename or re-encode glyphs using two encoding modes with an unlimited number of encoding tables and codepages.

Compatible with the entire codepoint range of the Unicode Standard 5.0, including double-byte (BMP) and four-byte non-BMP codepoints beyond U+FFFF (new in version 3).

Easy navigation in large multilingual or Asian fonts with the Font Map panel.

Excellent screen quality for all generated fonts due to automatic Type 1 and TrueType hinting with Flex Type 1 hint support (improved in version 3).

Minimal modifications possible: preserve the original screen hinting and the original OpenType Layout tables as long as glyphs are not modified by the user (improved in version 3).

Versatile sample and preview printing of fonts and individual glyphs (improved in version 3).

Redesigned preferences; save, open and exchange preference profiles (new in version 3).

Uses VFB file format compatible with FontLab Studio, BitFonter 3, ScanFont and TransType (improved in version 3).