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TypeTool is our basic font
editor for Mac OS and for
Windows. For students, hobby typographers and creative professionals who
occasionally need to create or customize fonts.
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TypeTool
Value priced font editor for light users. Version 3.1 for Mac and
Windows.
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includes support for OpenType fonts with up to 65,000 glyphs, Unicode
5.0 support, new bitmap Background and outline Mask layers, improved
Bézier drawing with open contours and tangent points, multi-line metrics
and kerning editing, superb screen quality autohinting, better
printouts, and much more. |
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Create new
fonts or modify existing
fonts, open any fonts installed on your system (improved
in version 3).
Open and generate PostScript
Type 1 andTrueType fonts.
Open and generate PostScript-flavored (CFF/.otf) and TrueType-flavored
(.ttf) OpenType fonts (new
in version 3). Note:
The ability to edit the advanced typographic OpenType Layout features is
not included in TypeTool, so other tools such as FontLab
Studio, Microsoft VOLT or Adobe FDK for OpenType need to be used.
Professional-quality fonts and
industry-standard font technology: the engine of TypeTool is based on
FontLab Studio, the professional font editor used by numerous font
foundries worldwide.
Add logos, signatures, ligatures, old-style figures, fractions, currency
symbols, punctuation or international characters to your fonts.
Make your own text fonts as well as dingbat
or clipart fonts.
Easy-to-use intuitive user
interface with
high-quality smooth glyph display (improved
in version 3).
Open and generate fonts with up to 65,000
glyphs.
200-level undo/redo.
Edit outline glyphs using
more than intuitive 20 tools.
Industry-standard Bézier
drawing tools familiar to
users of Fontographer, Adobe Illustrator or Freehand(improved in
version 3).
VectorPaint tools for
realistic bitmap-like outline editing using shaped
brush strokes (improved
in version 3).
Precise glyph measurement with the Meter mode ruler.
True support for open contours and Fontographer-compatible
tangent points (new in
version 3).
Make font
variations with
automatic glyph and metric transformations such as scaling or slanting.
Import bitmap images or
BDF bitmap fonts into the new Background layer (new
in version 3).
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Place reference outlines into the Mask
layer(new in version 3).
Lock any layer to prevent accidental modification of outline or metrics (new
in version 3).
Metrics and Kerning window
for automatic or manual spacing and kerning with multi-line preview,
right-to-left support and AFM/PFM metric import/export (improved
in version 3).
Import and export individual glyphs in EPSformat,
copy-paste exchange with Adobe Illustrator (improved
in version 3).
Font Info dialog gives
you access to various font properties such as menu and family names,
supported codepages or linespacing metrics.
Rearrange, rename or re-encode
glyphsusing two encoding
modes with an
unlimited number of encoding tables and codepages.
Compatible with the entire codepoint range of the Unicode Standard
5.0, including double-byte (BMP) and four-byte non-BMP codepoints beyond
U+FFFF (new in version 3).
Easy navigation in large multilingual or Asian fonts with the Font
Map panel.
Excellent screen quality for
all generated fonts due to automatic Type 1 and TrueType hinting with
Flex Type 1 hint support(improved in version 3).
Minimal modifications possible: preserve
the original screen
hinting and the original OpenType Layout tables as long as glyphs are
not modified by the user (improved
in version 3).
Versatile sample and preview printing of
fonts and individual glyphs (improved
in version 3).
Redesigned preferences; save, open and exchange preference profiles (new
in version 3).
Uses VFB file format compatible
with FontLab Studio, BitFonter 3, ScanFont and TransType (improved
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