FontLab 8 is an integrated font editor for Mac and Windows that helps you create fonts from start to finish, from a simple design to a complex project, and brings a spark of magic into type design.
Make World-Class Fonts
Express your imagination, prototype and experiment. Draft glyphs with bitmap autotracing and live calligraphic strokes. Draw and edit beautiful, smooth, consistent glyphs in fractional or integer precision, with the help of intelligent snapping and live numeric and visual measurements. Refine your drawings: create overlaps, simplify paths, equalize stems. Scale while keeping stroke thickness, globally adjust weight and width, find & fix imperfections. Build and assemble glyphs from variable components or from self-adjusting segment or corner skins. Add accented glyphs with a simple double-click. Space and kern in multi-line tabs or windows that feel like a text editor. Add typographic smartness like ligatures, small caps, old-style numerals with automatically-generated OpenType features, and test them in the integrated state-of-the-art complex-script text engine. Explore new directions with color and variation. Extend and complete any font in FontLab, or in mix with other font editors. Create, open, extend, test and export font families, variable OpenType fonts, color fonts and web fonts for any Unicode writing system. Interchange with other font editing apps like FontForge, RoboFont or Glyphs. Supercharge your workflow with powerful add-ins and Python 3 scripts.
700 Reasons to Love
FontLab has been the go-to app for professional typeface designers to make smooth and consistent curves, comfortably tweak, space and kern a typeface, and then export technically solid fonts in any format. With FontLab 8, we’ve revised and modernized every aspect of our powerful, versatile font editor. NEW FontLab 8.2 has 250 improvements over version 8, and 700 improvements over FontLab 7: it’s easier to learn and use, it’s better, and it’s faster. Discover the new dark UI theme, adjustable Stroke and Brush sketching, polished drawing and editing, non-destructive transformations with Delta, visual and numeric measurement, glyph building with Skin and variable components, spacing and kerning with mouse and trackpad, right-to-left kerning, batch font export and Actions sets, revamped color and gradients, plus support for .glyphs 3, FontForge, COLRv1, and Python 3.
Explore, Draft and Draw
Relax your eyes with the new dark or refined light interface theme. Group panels into a vertical infinite, scrollable panel dock, and intuitively navigate between the panels. Adjust numeric values with sliders and calculations. Boost your productivity with up to 8× improved performance. Draw calligraphic letterforms with new Power Stroke or improved Power Brush. Modulate thickness visually with Thickness tool. Draw fluently with Pen and Rapid toolbox sub-tools. Draw polygons and stars with Rectangle tool. Make slanted selections, keep selections as you switch masters, and store them in Selections panel. Use toolbox for hands-free Power Nudge, handle Nudge and Lever precision dragging, and for easier curve cleanup with Eraser. Adjust curve tension numerically. Align and collapse points. Reverse contours with Fill tool. Sort contours. Paste to replace selection. Fine-tune individual ink traps and smart corners.
