Professional spacingĪnd kerning Automatic and class-based metrics and kerning Font families and This way, you can quickly switch between related lettershapes and design them in a coordinated fashion. In-context design: Shape groups & NeighborsįontLab Studio 5 dynamically displays the glyphs relevant to the one you’re working on, with Shape groups, a semi-transparent glyph cloud stacked behind the current outline, and Neighbors, glyphs left and right of your glyph. Use FontAudit to find those lines that are just off of vertical, missing extrema points, and tangent curves that aren’t quite smooth. Better curves with FontAuditĮasily spot odd points and suspicious curves with FontAudit, our live outline custodian that will visually show you errors and possible issues in your glyphs, and sometimes even automatically fix them. Clean up, Optimize, correct and simplify your contours with a variety of smart algorithms for perfect quality. Import monochrome images and use them as reference, or automatically Trace them into Bézier contours, specifically optimized for type design. Import bitmaps or vectors, trace and clean upĬopy-paste vectors from Adobe Illustrator or import EPS outline artwork.
With numeric and freeform Transformations, both manual and font-wide, you can quickly adjust your glyphs to match your design. A powerful combination of the Pen, Rectangle, Ellipse, Knifeand Eraser tools allows you to create precise Bézier curves. Many designers say that FontLab Studio 5 is their favorite Bézier drawing tool ever. Professional glyph drawing Draw from scratch or turn your scans into perfect outlines Comfortable Bézier creation
It supports all major outline font formats, from OpenType and TrueType to PostScript Type 1 and Multiple Master. FontLab Studio 5 offers a complete integrated workflow for professional font creation, from font family management, through multilingual glyph design and accelerated spacing and kerning, all the way to automatic and manual hinting and Python scripting.