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Sometimes if you want something done right you just have to do it yourself. If you want a font with that extra something, that handcrafted look, that special zing, etc. and you just can’t find it among the many offerings on the web then maybe, just maybe, it’s time to go back to the drawing board and make your own. Fontlab offers a number of font editing tools that can help you in this process:

FontLab 4.6 - the superstar of font editors. It can do most anything that can be done with fonts and is widely used by professional typographers and most major type foundries.

ScanFont 4 - a quick way to convert images into fonts. For handwriting, symbols, logos, clipart, etc. that you want to convert into a font.

TransType - converts fonts between Mac and PC platforms

TypeTool- converts fonts between Truetype and Postscript Type 1 formats.

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As well as its basic functions, FontLab offers numerous high-end functions which are unique:

• Font Overview with as many fonts open as desired and sorted according to various criteria.
• Large number of Filters for global alterations!
• Font Informations taking into account the details of Type 1 and TrueType fonts!
• A Kerning and Metrics editor allows manual and automatic functions to be used for altering character orientation and for kerning.
• Outline Editor with fully new types of Vector drawing tools: as easy to use as a paint program!
• Creation and modification of Multiple Master fonts!
• Automatic hinting as well as direct editing and control of Type 1 Hints!
• Automatic conversion of Type 1 hints to TrueType instructions as well as direct editing and control of TrueType instructions!
• A Python script interpreter inside FontLab lets you extend FontLab features infinitely. Make your own tools and plugins!
• New Outline Tools - Knife, Magic Wand, 3D Rotate, Scale and Slant... - FL4 has a whole batch of new, intuitive ways to work with glyphs. Or use the new Sketch mode to create new contours with Ikarus-like tools.!
• Customizable User Interface - from menus and keyboard shortcuts to the pictures on toolbar buttons - change the FontLab GUI to fit your needs
• Double-byte Codepages - for Chinese, Japanese and Korean fonts!
• Create Arabic and Hebrew Fonts - right-to-left writing is supported in all panels and in the Metrics editor!
• Blend two fonts to get a new one!

Fontlab is user friendly:

• Context sensitive Help always available!
• Simple modification of objects using property dialogs!
• Popup menus for frequently used commands!
• 100 level undo/Redo!
• Font Help:
  Technical font imprecisions are displayed, and if desired, automatically corrected!