FontForge
FontForge is a cross platform free font editor for
Windows and other famous operating systems. You can create your own
font, or modify any existing font. It supports various font types. These
formats include TrueType (TTF), OpenType (OTF), PostScript (PS), and
many more. You can easily use lines, shapes, curves and can use your
imagination to draw characters. To create a font, go to File>New,
select the letter for which you want to create font, and a workspace
appears. You can begin creating a font by drawing a freehand shape, and
later you can use various tools to modify it. These tools include:
Measure distance and angle, change/modify curve points, add curve,
tangent, and corner point, flip, scale, rotate, shapes, and much more.
Once done with a font, save it; you can save your work in its native
.SFD format. For creating font file, you have to choose Generate Fonts
command from File menu. The program might look a bit difficult to use,
but is really easy to use and understand.
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Type light
Type light
is an easy to use font maker software available free for Windows. You
can create new font from scratch or can edit any existing. It has
various tools to draw and edit font characters, like: pen, line,
rectangle, ellipse etc. It has Conner curve, Straight curve, Smooth
curve, and Off curve tools also for precisely editing nodes and curves.
It has zoom in and zoom out commands also. The edited or newly created
font can be saved in OTF and TTF format. The program is lightweight and
uses low system resources.
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Raster Font Editor
Raster Font Editor
is a free and easy to use bitmap font editor, maker and converter. You
can use this portable software from your pen drive also. You can create
your own font from scratch or edit the required one by opening. It has a
text "Text Preview" window, which lets you to preview the font before
finalizing. You can save the font in .FNT (font resource file) format
for later editing or compiling. It has an import feature also, which
lets you import from BMP, TTF, and DOS 8x16 fonts. You can finally save
the font in BMP, BDF, and other formats.
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BirdFont
BirdFont
is a free, open source, and easy to use font creator software which
lets you create fonts from scratch or edit the existing one. You can
draw or create vector graphics and then export them to TTF, EOT and SVG
fonts. You can draw individual characters (alphanumeric and special
characters) as desired. It has various drawing tools, like: line,
freehand, move canvas, move path, and various others. Geometric shapes
can also be added and edited. You can customize the program settings
from settings menu. Various shortcut keys can also be configured as per
requirement.
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TTFEdit
TTFEdit
is another font creator software in the list. It can modify or edit the
existing ones also. You can use its templates to create a new font. It
is a java based program and is platform independent. You can edit the
shape of any character or letter by modifying its curves in the Glyph
Editor. You can use your imagination to create or edit fonts of your
choice.
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Fony
Fony
is a small, free, and easy to use bitmap font editor. It lets you
create or edit bitmap fonts. Supported formats are: FON and FNT. You can
draw font characters with the help of mouse. You can open and edit
installed fonts also. You can preview the font by pressing Ctrl + T from
keyboard or click "Font Preview" from View menu. After finishing you
can save the font in .FON or .FNT format while you can use export
command also to export the font in BMP and BDF format. It is a portable
program and does not require installation. You can run it from a pen
drive or any removable disk too.
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Double Type
Double type
is a free Font generator software. This multi-platform software works
on Windows, MAC OS, and Linux. This font creator software creates True
Type Font files on your computer. To create a Font, Open DoubleType, go
to File>New>Glyph, select a letter for which you want to create
the font. A work space will appear, where you can render the font with
the help of various tools. There are various tools available to help you
create a font, like: Add a hint, Add a point, Create module, Create
contour, Create Include, Pick a point, etc. While you are working with a
font, you can also preview them on this Font creator software. You can
create simple, as well as complex font designs by increasing the size,
and DPI of the work space.
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