FontLab’s Adam, Thomas and Yuri introduce FontLab VI. Years in the making, and a complete rewrite from scratch, FontLab VI combines the latest font technologies and a new cross-platform user interface. FontLab VI introduces dozens of innovations to type design, especially in vector drawing and editing. The new app has been built with active input… Continue reading Introducing FontLab VI
We’re introducing FontLab 7.2, a massive update for our pro font editor for macOS and Windows that lets you create and edit fonts in any format for any script on any platform. With this release, you can enjoy 30× faster proofing of variations and an all-new way of proofing OpenType features, easily navigate in large… Continue reading FontLab 7.2. Better every day.
A lifetime of type design tools, formats and projects The history of outline font editors spans some 40+ years, or the total of this speaker’s life. Ikarus, Pika, Fontographer, RoboFog, Type Art, FontStudio, TypeDesigner, FontLab, RoboFab, FontMaster, RoboFont, Glyphs, FontCreator – since the inception of outline-based font creation, type designers have employed a flurry of… Continue reading Digital legacies
FontLab 7 has several methods that you can use to assemble your glyphs from predefined parts. With element references, you can draw one or more contours once and then reuse them in other glyphs. An element reference doesn’t have a “source glyph”—any occurrence of an element reference is the source. Components are similar, but the… Continue reading Expand Your Glyph Set with FontLab 7
Yanone introduces his software ‘Speed Punk’, a learning tool made to better understand the nature of Bézier curves. From the 2013 ATypI conference in Amsterdam. Speed Punk is an add-on tool for modern type design applications such Glyphs.app and RoboFont that illustrates the curvature on top of the Bézier outlines — while designing. It has proven… Continue reading Speed punk