: Why hasn't Adobe built a font feature into illustrator yet? It seems that Illustrator is the flavor of choice when designing typefaces. Users seem to have a strong grasp on Illustrator and prefer

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It seems that Illustrator is the flavor of choice when designing typefaces. Users seem to have a strong grasp on Illustrator and prefer the design tools in the software over others. Typography is a huge part of what makes Illustrator so accessible to a designer.

As someone who has designed typefaces from hand using illustrator and then having to lug everything over to fontLab I'm confused as to why Adobe hasn't built in the features of fontLab into illustrator, or why they haven't built something better.

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I don't think Illustrator necessarily is the flavor of choice for type design. With several dedicated products for this on the market, I think those that do type design for a living tend to work within those apps. Glyphs seems to be a popular one these days.

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@Ravi4787994

Tiny market. Tiny markets don't make Adobe's priority list. Just like bug fixes that most people won't notice doesn't register with them either.

There would also be a lot of additional code to make that happen. Since very few people need it, the program would just be bogged down by it.

I'm a big fan of the concept, though. I'd love to see FontLab implement their program as a plug-in or at least have a very clean transition tool to take things back and forth.

Adobe also has their own in-house tool for font development. Maybe they could make that a plug-in.

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