Font Editors
Professional Font Editors
Font Editors for Amateurs
| Name | Description | Link |
|---|---|---|
| Glyphs Mini | The light-weight Mac font editor for beginners. | Glyphs Mini |
| Fontself | Fontself as a standalone app for iPad or as extention for Illustrator and Photoshop. | Fontself |
More Font Editors
| Name | Description | Link |
|---|---|---|
| FontCreator | FontCreator is a font editor that allows you to modify an existing font—no matter how advanced or complex—and still preserve all OpenType layout feature data. | FontCreator |
| FontForge | FontForge is libre software. | FontForge |
Experimental Font Editors
| Name | Description | Link |
|---|---|---|
| Bezy | An open-source cross-platform font editor built with the Bevy game engine, the Rust programming language. | Bezy |
| FontBob | Browser based font editor (Beta) | FontBob |
| Glyphr Studio | A free & open source web-based font editor, made for hobbyists and typeface design beginners. | Glyphr Studio |
| Typoclast | You can load a font, destroy it and once the experimental process is complete, export the resulting font file. | Typoclast |
Font Production
Font Production Apps
Font Production Scripts for FontLab
| Name | Description | Link |
|---|---|---|
| A tool is missing? | Please let me know via Github Issues | GitHub |
Font Production Scripts for Fontra
| Name | Description | Link |
|---|---|---|
| A tool is missing? | Please let me know via Github Issues | GitHub |
Font Production Scripts/Plugins for Glyphs
| Name | Description | Link |
|---|---|---|
| Glyphs-Scripts by Mekkablue | Python scripts intended for font production in the Glyphs font editor by Mekkablue (aka Rainer Erich Scheichelbauer). | GitHub |
| Font Remix Tools | Very helpful tools to modify and extend your font project, for example tweaking outlines, creating dnoms, numrs, etc, or generating a condensed version of your font. | Remix Tools |
Font Production Scripts for RoboFont
| Name | Description | Link |
|---|---|---|
| A tool is missing? | Please let me know via Github Issues | GitHub |
Font Quality Assurance
Font Testing
Font Inspection
Font Proofing
Font Proofing Web-based
More Font Proofing Web-based
| Name | Description | Link |
|---|---|---|
| Mass Drivers waterfall | Waterfall finds words with the same visual length. | Mass Drivers |
| Motion Fonts Player | The tool offers explicit control over looping variable font axes including letter delay, play once options, range control and more. It also allows exporting the loop as an MP4 video. | Motion Fonts Player |
Font Proofing PDF-based
| Name | Description | Link |
|---|---|---|
| DrawBotProofing | DrawBot scripts for proofing fonts and/or UFOs. | GitHub |
Font Coding
Rust Tools
| Name | Description | Link |
|---|---|---|
| fontations | Font parsing and manipulation library | GitHub |
| fontc | Font compiler written in Rust | GitHub |
Python Tools
| Name | Description | Link |
|---|---|---|
| fonttools | Library for manipulating fonts | GitHub |
| fontmake | Compile fonts from sources | GitHub |
| gftools | Google Fonts tools | GitHub |
| defcon | Defcon is a set of UFO based objects optimized for use in font editing applications. | GitHub |
| ufo2ft | ufo2ft ("UFO to FontTools") is a fork of ufo2fdk whose goal is to generate OpenType font binaries from UFOs without the FDK dependency. | GitHub |
JavaScript Tools
| Name | Description | Link |
|---|---|---|
| JavaScript FontTools | Node.js adapter of python font tools via Pyodide without having to install python and its dependencies. | GitHub |
Other Tools
| Name | Description | Link |
|---|---|---|
| AFDKO | Adobe Font Development Kit for OpenType | GitHub |
| VTT | Microsoft Visual TrueType (VTT) is a professional-level tool for graphically instructing TrueType and OpenType TM fonts. | VTT |
| VOLT | The Microsoft Visual OpenType Layout Tool (VOLT) provides an easy-to-use graphical user interface to add OpenType layout tables to fonts with TrueType outlines. | VOLT |
Documentations
Font Editor Documentations
| Name | Description | Link |
|---|---|---|
| FontLab 7 Manual | FontLab 7 Manual | FontLab 7 Manual |
| Fontra Documentation | Fontra Documentation | Fontra Docu |
| Glyphs Handbook | Glyphs Handbook | Glyphs Handbook |
| RoboFont Documentation | RoboFont Documentation | RoboFont Docu |
OpenType Specifications
| Name | Description | Link |
|---|---|---|
| OpenType Specification | OpenType Specification (hosted by Microsoft) | OpenType Specification |
| AAT | Apple's TrueType Reference Manual | TrueType Reference Manual |