: Is there any open-source alternative to Fontlab out there? I used to work with Fontlab Studio to design and compile my fonts. Years have passed and my former Fontlab install vanished into the

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I used to work with Fontlab Studio to design and compile my fonts. Years have passed and my former Fontlab install vanished into the voids of a crashing harddisk.

Now that I'm gaining interest in font-design again, I used and abused the usual search engines, but I have not managed to find any free or open-source software out there with alike functionality which Fontlab offers.

Therefore I would love to know: "Is there any open-source alternative to Fontlab out there?"

(Preferably, it should be able to run on a Microsoft Windows operating system.)

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Fontforge

It can be a bit clunky on Windows and crash occasionally, but then it can do that sometimes on Linux, too. Keep backups. I edit all fonts directly in my Dropbox directory so I have access to a file history.

Its user interface is strange and the author has no intention to fix that any time soon.

Some parts of it, like the auto-hinting, are actually very good and I would argue are better than Fontlab. Other parts of it are inferior. I don't, for example, think the simplify algorithm is very good, particularly for quadratic splines (which is what you use for Truetype outlines).

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Open Source Font Editors:

FontForge
gbdfed Bitmap Font Editor
BirdFont

Freeware Font Editors:

Font Struct
Bit font Maker
Type light
Font Constructor
Raster Font Editor

Commercial Font Editors:

FontCreator
(Fontlab Studio)

Font Management:

25 Font Management Tools Reviewed

Search results for font management:

What is a good free font management tool for linux?
Font management tools for Mac
Font management tool across multiple machines

Misc.:

The upcoming .91 release of Inkscape claims to have 'type design feeatures'

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