A font editor is a class of application software specifically designed to create or modify font files. Font editors differ greatly depending on if they are designed to edit bitmap fonts or outline fonts. Most modern font editors deal with the outline fonts. Bitmap fonts use an older technology and are most commonly used in console applications. The bitmap font editors were usually very specialized, as each computing platform had its own font format. One subcategory of bitmap fonts is text mode fonts.
List of font editors The following editors use outline vector graphics to create font files in common formats.
Website FontStruct
Free software Birdfont FontForge Inkscape
Proprietary software FontCreator from High-Logic (Mac, Windows) FontLab (Mac, Windows) Fontographer (Mac, Windows) Glyphs (Mac) Ikarus
See also Typography Comparison of font editors
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