Features
- Boost your design productivity
You can draw smooth, consistent glyphs, autotrace bitmaps, create overlaps, simplify paths, equalize stems, scale outlines while keeping strokes thickness. You can draw in functional or integer coordinates, see view numeric and visual measurements, find and fix contour imperfections.
- Next-generation drawing
Creating Bèzier curves is no lonher " matery or mystery"
- Seriously better Bèziers
We love curves so much that we are making them better.
- Complete Color Support
In FontLab, everything is color-enabled. Draw multu-color contours, bring in color outlines, improved SVGs and bitmap images, overlay layered fonts and create emoji or chromatic fonts for all Color OpenType-enabled platforms : Adobe Photoshop and Illustrator CC 2018+, MacOS, Windows, iOS, Android and modern web browsers.
- Integrated ScanFont
You've made your drawings somewhere else? No problem. Copy-paste glyph outlines or color vector graphics from Adobe Illustrator , FontLab Studio, or other vector drawing or font apps, import SVG drawings, bitmap images and new PDF graphics. Arrange them on the Sketchboard, optionallu turn bitmaps into smooth vector graphics using autotrace, then automatically assign the letterforms to glyphs to create a fully working font in a few minutes. No need for a separate ScanFont app!
- Sketchboard
Our Sketchboard is a virtual desk or canvas that allows you to draw and experiment outside of any glyph. It's great for collecting sketches, separating artwork into glyph images, or just drawing logos and symbols using all of FontLab's juicy Bèzier magic. You can also arrange text frames showing different fonts you've working on, and export the contents into a PDF or SVG for proofing.
- Pixel-savvy
Drag-drop or copy-paste pixel images in most formats, with mono, grayscale, full color and transparency support. Improved Split and autotrace or place the images into the img layer for reference to draw over them. Rotate and scale imported graphics, crop, blur, remove noise and background.
- For design space explorers
A font family consists of font that have different locations on one or more design space Axes, such as width, weight, slant or optical size.
- In an instance
Easily plan your instances for an extensive font family or a variable font. With axis instances, define per-axis.
Interpolation locations and style phrases, and FontLab will automatically build a matrix of all instances for all axes, with correct Style names and Style groups.
