Directory of Design and Creation Resources

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Software designed to help with the design and creation of fonts.

Resources in This Category

• D-Type Font Engine and Grayscale Rasterizer

  http://www.d-type.com/
  Scalable graphics library for smooth (anti-aliased) text and vector based graphics with direct support for TrueType, Type 1 and D-Type fonts.

• Font Constructor

  http://www.fontconstructor.com/
  Mac software for font creation. The font can be exported as an otf-file. With demo-video and documentation.

• FontForge

  http://fontforge.sourceforge.net/
  Open source postscript font editor to create postscript, TrueType, opentype, cid-keyed and bitmap (bdf) fonts, or edit existing ones. It can also be used to convert one format to another.

• Fontlab LTD

  http://www.fontlab.com/
  Typography tools for editing, converting, designing, and manipulating digital typefaces and font families.

• FontStruct

  http://fontstruct.com/
  A free online font-building tool, fonts can be shared and downloaded.

• Photofonts

  http://www.photofont.com/
  Allow the creation of bitmap fonts that can be used both on the web and in print. With free samples and plugins for common DTP-software.

• Type Solutions, Inc.

  http://www.typesolutions.com/
  Font Fusion font rendering engine technology.

• YourFonts

  http://www.yourfonts.com/
  Online handwriting font generation service. Fonts can be previewed and purchased.

 

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