#font editor

"Golden Elegance" is an enchanting font that emanates a sense of timeless beauty and refinement. With its graceful curves and intricate elements, this font effortlessly captivates attention and adds a touch of luxury to any design. The font-family "Alex Brush" lends a calligraphic, handcrafted impression. The text color, combined with the text-shadow, imparts a subtle golden, metallic glow, giving the font an ethereal and captivating 3D appearance. "Golden Elegance" is the perfect choice for designs seeking to evoke a sense of sophistication, beauty, and timeless charm.

#JetBrains – JetBrains Mono, a nice and useful console font. Bonus: @justgetflux

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I don’t spend as much time as I want in front of any of my Code Editors. And because of work, when I do, is mostly at night. So, I’m usually kind of tired andI really appreciate every help I got there.

I’m already using flux to to make the color of my computer’s display adapt to the time of day, warm at night and like sunlight during the day (see references).

And a few days ago,…

Though there are plenty of fonts out there for you to choose from, you may have the desire to create your very own custom font. Perhaps you want to design your own unique font for your company's logo, or you may have a specific font design in mind and, after looking at hundreds of fonts, you've concluded that you'd have to make your own lettering to get exactly what you want.

FontLab Studio

FontLab Studio by FontLab is a powerful font editor for professionals to design typefaces and create or modify fonts. It is available for Windows and Mac and supports all major outline font formats including Type 1, TrueType, Multiple Master, and OpenType.

FontCreator

FontCreator, available for Windows, has an intuitive interface for beginners and also has advance feature sets for font designers to create and edit high-quality TrueType and OpenType fonts. Import of images or vector graphics for conversion into glyphs are also supported.

Fontographer

Fontographer, another powerful font editor by FontLab lets you create new fonts from scratch or customize the existing ones. You can open and generate Type 1, TrueType, OpenType, Type 3 fonts, you can fine-tune spacing and kerning among other special features. Fontographer is available for Windows and Mac systems.

FontForge

FontForge is a downloadable application available for Windows, Mac, Unix/Linux systems and localized in many different languages. It is an outline font editor and allows you to create and edit PostScript, TrueType, OpenType, SVG and bitmap fonts. It also lets you convert one format to another.

FontStruct

FontStruct is a free browser-based typography creation tool to let you quickly and easily create your own fonts. You can download your font as TrueType. You can also share your fonts with FontStruct community, browse and download fonts uploaded by others and use in your projects.

BitFontMaker2

BitFontMaker2 is a browser-based pixel-font the editor that you can use to edit and create bitmap fonts. You can download your fonts as TrueType font, you can also upload your fonts to their gallery.

Fontifier

Fontifier is an online tool that allows you to create a TrueType font from your own handwriting. You can preview your font for free but you have to buy the font for using it in your projects.

YourFonts

YourFonts is an online tool that lets you generate OpenType fonts from your scanned handwriting. Like Fontifier, font preview is free and you need to purchase the font for use in your projects.

Glyphr

Glyphr is a free HTML5 based font-editor. You can either explore a work in progress font or create your font from scratch with Glyphr Studio Online.

Robofont

RoboFont’s interface is fairly modular, using individual windows for individual tasks. The environment may also strike you as rather minimal. The idea is for it to be an open platform that can be customized, rather than locking you into one prefabricated workflow from the start. 

Conclusion

Here’s a great introduction to FontForge.

I'm still on the way to create my very first typeface, Traffic. I've been looking around at a few options for a font editor which includes Fontographer, Glyphs and Robofont. Yes, the options doesn’t include the open source and free font editor, FontForge. I was adamant to using it instead of paid versions because I onced played with it and didn't like it.

I did look at it again a few days back, installed it in my machine and started watching some videos about it and how to use it. More and more I fell in love with what I used to hate. I can tell that it is capable enough for my use as someone starting in typeface design and saves me around $400.

PUTTING A LITTLE CRAFT BACK INTO FONT CREATION

With all things digital, it seems the craft of hand lettering has taken a back seat these days. If you still have a passion for all things hand lettered, iFontMaker is the first font editor exclusively created for the iPad. You can create your own hand lettered typeface by using the iPad’s touch interface with the final outcome becoming a proper TTF file to use in all your applications (and website as a web font). 

CC'd: thinks this is a useful tool to spark some useful creativity. Check out: 2ttf.com

A: These applications are not recommended for the overall process of designing a typeface, although they have their place. Remember that ultimately, typeface designs are ways of styling text, they are not just collections of letters.

When you draw a collection of letters on their own, you can see the black shapes of the letters – and you may feel comfortable drawing them using software you are familiar with.

But a typeface is a system of black and white shapes. Why? because white shapes are created by the spaces between letters. A illustration application isn't a good tool to test these. Font editors also help maintain regularity in stroke thicknesses and letterforms, which is helpful to most typefaces. A font editor can also generate real font files that you can install and use in a page layout application to set larger amounts of text.

Of course, there may be moments during the overall process where you need to solve a particular drawing problem, and that is where illustration applications have their place. However, like most type designers, as you become familiar with drawing and editing fonts in a font editor you may never go back!