Descriptions:
FontLab 7 is a modern and professional font editor designed for type designers and font geeks. Allows you to create, open, modify, draw, space, kern, track, and export OpenType desktop, web, color, and variable fonts for any Unicode writing system, from Latin, Cyrillic, and Greek to Arabic, Hebrew, and Indic, to end to Chinese, Japanese, emoji, symbols and icons.
Features:
Increase your design productivity
You can draw smooth and consistent glyphs, autotrace bitmaps, create overlays, simplify paths, equalize stems, scale outlines, and maintain stroke thickness. You can draw in fractional or integer coordinates, view numerical and visual measurements, find and correct contour imperfections.
Full color support
In FontLab 7, everything is color-enabled. Draw multi-color outlines, draw color outlines, enhanced SVG and bitmap images, layer fonts, and create emoji or chromatic fonts for all OpenType Color-enabled platforms: Adobe Photoshop and Illustrator CC 2018+, macOS, Windows 8+ , iOS, Android, and modern web browsers.
Integrated ScanFont
Have you made your drawings elsewhere? No problem. Copy and paste glyph outlines or color vector graphics from Adobe Illustrator, FontLab Studio or other vector drawing applications or fonts, import SVG drawings, bitmap images and new PDF graphics. Arrange them on the Sketch Board, optionally convert bitmaps to smooth vector graphics using autotrace, then automatically map letter shapes to glyphs to create a fully functional font in minutes. You don't need a separate ScanFont app!
Sketch
Our Sketchboard is a virtual desktop or canvas that allows you to draw and experiment outside of any glyph. It's great for collecting sketches, separating illustrations into glyph images, or simply drawing logos and symbols with all the juicy Bézier magic from FontLab. You can also arrange text frames that show the different fonts you are working on and export the content to PDF or SVG for testing.
Pixel Expert
Drag, drop, or copy and paste pixel images in most formats, with support for mono, grayscale, full color, and transparency. Enhanced split and autotrace or place images on the img layer for reference to draw on. Rotate and scale imported graphics, crop, blur, remove noise and background.
For layout space explorers
A font family consists of fonts that have different locations on one or more layout space axes, such as width, weight, slant, or optical size. To create tweened instances or a variable OpenType font (TT or new CFF2) from one or more Font Masters, use Font Info to add the axes and assign axis locations for all the font masters within your FontLab font.
Distraction-free spacing
Perform metrics and enhance kerning editing in a multi-line metrics window, with a distraction-free, adjustable user interface and intuitive keyboard shortcuts. Review your sentences with the Pairs and Phrases panel, or dive into the details using the slanted side supports and the Measure line.
Components, references, and automatic layers
Use Components to build letters or accented ligatures from other glyphs - compound glyphs you create will inherit outlines, guides, and anchors from component sources. Or turn on the Automatic layer, and the metrics and component positions in the compound glyph layer will always be up to date.
TrueType Tips
We've completely revamped FontLab's beloved TrueType Hinting (TTH) visual engine, and added TTFAutohint as a fallback engine. FontLab 7 includes a true Microsoft ClearType preview (even on the Mac version), has a streamlined user interface, allows you to attach visual TTH commands to PostScript outlines and overlapping paths, and has built-in functionality to copy TTH commands from a font to another, or from a glyph in a font to a similar one.
Express export with profiles
Trying to duplicate a bunch of preference settings to generate a specific font could be painful. In FontLab, we have introduced Profiles for font generation. Each profile is a group of settings for generating output sources in a particular format. FontLab 7 has an enhanced set of profiles for all of our standard output formats, and you can easily create new profiles to meet your particular needs.
Embracing your workflow
Type designers use various tools and workflows. FontLab 7 does not lock it in a proprietary file format. Do you have fonts in another format? FontLab opens it: OpenType (TT, PS, TT Variable, new PS Variable, SVG, sbix, CBDT, COLR, TTC), Web (WOFF2, WOFF, EOT), FontLab VFB, Fontographer, Enhanced Glyphs, DesignSpace + Enhanced UFO, PostScript Type 1, TrueType, Ikarus, even old Mac fonts on Windows (in a Zip container)! Instead of reinventing the wheel, FontLab 7 uses the best solutions in the industry: Adobe FDK for OpenType, Microsoft ClearType, TTFAutohint, MutatorMath, fontTools with varLib, HarfBuzz, ICU, Python (APIs supported by FontLab Studio and RoboFab), the optimizer KLTF kerning and a SpeedPunk-style bend view.
Changes:
• 120 new or improved features
• New Rotate, Scale and Slant tools
• Adaptive freeform grid with Suggest distance
• Per-font rounded or fractional coordinates
• Flexible dynamic instance and 30 × faster interpolation
• Powerful attached and variable components
• Visual proofing and better editing of features
• Microsoft VOLT integration
• Font window filtering by color flag and glyph name suffix
• Better UFO 3 and .glyphs 2 and 3 interchange
• 80 fixes
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