Fontographerįontographer is for people with a long history of drawing with Béziér curves and working in typography. It takes a while to learn, but it’s worth it. But the path editing interface of FontLab is simply better. I tried Fontographer for drawing and FontLab for the more technical portions. People like myself will probably be drawn to FontLab. Plus, I was really looking forward to relearning Fontographer, now in version 5.1. I was and am grateful for the opportunity. In 2011, Ted Harrison, president of FontLab, contacted me to see if I was interested in bundling Practical Font Design with his software and possibly writing a version of Practical Font Design for Fontographer. ![]() It was and is still surprisingly popular. I wrote about what I learned in a book called Practical Font Design now in the 3rd Edition for print Practical Font Design, Third Edition and Practical Font Design, Third Edition Plus for Kindle. I learned an entirely new way of drawing that was necessitated by FontLab’s tools. I learned how to carefully and professionally hand space fonts. I learned how to write OpenType features. Thomas Phinney, then of Adobe, told me I had no option but to go to FontLab. ![]() ![]() My old version of Fontographer would not run in Mac OSX very well. ![]() They were selling a little on Myfonts. When OpenType became viable with the release of InDesign I needed to find something else. Personally, I started in Fontographer in the early 1990s and gradually built a little sideline of designing fonts. We need to get this question out of the way before we get started.
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