Top 15 FontForge Alternative and Similar Softwares | Dec 2024

Typeface (font) editor program developed by George Williams. Fontforge is free software and is distributed under the BSD license. FontForge is available for several operating systems and is localized in several languages.Fontforge supports several font formats like TrueType, PostScript, OpenType, CID-keyed, multi-master, CFF, SVG, BDF, Datafork TrueType, etc. Fontforge can convert fonts from one format to another. FontForge can also store fonts in its native format called “spline font database files” using the .sfd extension, which has the advantage that is text-based. ...

1. FontStruct

FontStruct FontStruct is a free font-building tool brought to you by the world’s leading retailer of digital type, FontShop.FontStruct lets you quickly and easily create fonts constructed out of geometrical shapes, which are arranged in a grid pattern, like tiles or bricks.You create ‘FontStructions’ using the ‘FontStructor’ font editor.Once youre done......

2. Type light

Type light With Type light you can design, edit and convert OpenType, TrueType and PostScript fonts. As a light version of Type 3.2 font editor it is your ideal package for entering into the world of font creation.......

3. typetool

typetool 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......

4. Type 3.2

Type 3.2 Type 3.2 is advanced typography made accessible.Design, edit and convert OpenType and TrueType fonts.Run user defined Actions (eg italicise your font) and add OpenType features (eg ligatures and small capitals).......

5. Maintype

Maintype MainType is a professional font manager that allows you to view, manage, install and print your fonts with ease.......

6. X-Fonter

X-Fonter X-Fonter is an advanced font viewer and font manager for Windows that supports all font types (Truetype, Opentype, Postscript, Raster and Vector). The clear font previews make selecting the right font an easy task. You can also organize your fonts into custom collections and print font overviews. X-Fonter includes character......

7. Fontifier

Fontifier Fontifier lets you use your own handwriting for the text you write on your computer. It turns a scanned sample of your handwriting into a handwriting font that you can use in your word processor or graphics program, just like regular fonts.......

8. FontLab Studio

FontLab Studio FontLab Studio 5 is next-generation professional font editor for Mac and Windows. Used by Adobe, Apple, Bitstream, IBM, Linotype, Microsoft, Monotype, Morisawa and almost every other major font foundry in the world, it is the comprehensive solution for font foundries, professional type designers, typographers and graphic design studios, allowing them......

9. Printers Apprentice

Printers Apprentice Printers Apprentice 8.1 is a fantastic font manager for Windows 7, Vista & XP. Whether you are a graphic artist, a publishing professional or a software enthusiast, if you have a lot of fonts, Printer's Apprentice will help you organize your collection.......

10. Private Character Editor

Private Character Editor (Windows built-in) Using Private Character Editor (PCE), you can create up to 6,400 unique characters (such as special letters and logos) for use in your font library. PCE contains basic tools for creating and editing characters, along with more advanced options.......

11. Sib Font Editor

Sib Font Editor What is required to create a good bitmap font? Maybe some desire and time? Yes, but even the most gifted craftsman fails to impress without proper tools. If you want to make fonts, then take a look at Sib Font Editor. It has everything needed to make quality bitmap fonts......

12. Font Finder

Font Finder FontFinder is created for designers, developers and typographers. It allows a user to analyze the font information of any element on a page, copy any piece(s) of that information to the clipboard, and perform inline replacements to test new layouts.......

13. MyScriptFont

MyScriptFont Free online tool to create a vector font from your own handwriting.......

14. Typograf

Typograf Typograf previews, prints and manages opentype, truetype, type1 and printer fonts. The Typograf top class font manager * previews all OpenType, TrueType, PostScript Type 1 and printer fonts, * displays all font properties (typeface classification, kerning pairs, file data, copyright...), * views character set, keyboard layout, zoom view, * finds......

15. Cfont Pro

Cfont Pro Cfont Pro is a viewer to view installed system fonts, printer fonts, and a special mode where you select a directory and view the fonts in that directory.......