RoboFont: can be described as type design in hard mode. Plus: writing scripts in Glyphs is literal hell. There might be some workarounds, and the otherwise very helpful forum becomes obsolete (rather then answering my question I get asked why I do certain things certain ways. ![]() The downside: if you do things not exactly in the workflow that the creators of glyphs like, you’re basically fucked. It offers a bunch of functionalities and has people actively developing scripts and plug-ins. Glyphs: advertises as all in one solution. They both have their pros and cons and are better or worse in certain things than the other. It seems to have decent options to post process binaries though (which is interesting but if you’re not sure what font editors there are chances are low you need to work with binaries). They still develop and are currently at FontLab 8 I think.įontForge is the free alternative font editor. It has not been under active development in years random shit seems to get added or fixed here and there but again, it’s random shit.įontlab has kind of missed the opportunity to jump on the train. I think that for most people Glyphs and its available plugins already does everything you need so you probably don’t need to mess with Robofont.įontforge is a train wreck of buggy code, feature bloat, and random UX/UI decisions. Robofont is cool if you want to be able to quickly code scripts to do whatever you need. It’s easy to use, very powerful, there are lots of plugins and scripts available, and customer support is great. Glyphs is probably the most popular tool for professional type designers. The big disadvantage to FontCreator is that there isn’t a community to help you out. Some people love it because it’s a powerful beast that can do a lot, other people say it’s buggy and has a crazy UI.įontCreator is a very powerful tool that just never caught on with professional type designers (because most professional type designers use Macs and FontCreator only runs on Windows).
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