TypeTool

TypeTool is our light font editor. It does the basics quickly and easily.

Make new fonts
Automatically hint and kern your fonts
Add ligatures, old style figures, fractions, currency symbols and foreign characters to your fonts
Make your own dingbat or clipart fonts fonts
Make font variations
Print font reference tables
Rearrange your keyboard
Add correct em dashes, en dashes, quotation marks and apostrophes to your fonts
Make custom end-of-story markers for your newsletter
Convert fonts between Adobe Type 1 and TrueType formats

TypeTool specifications

Import formats: Type 1, TrueType, EPS
Export Formats: Type 1, TrueType, EPS
Tools/operations: Draw, Erase, Rotate, Skew, Zoom, Set Startpoint, Insert Node, Remove Overlap, Merge Contours, Subtract Contours, Intersect Contours, Snap to Guides, Ruler, Undo (200 levels), Autohint, Remove hints, Decompose
Windows: Edit, Font Table, Font Manager, Preview/Kerning/Metrics, Context sensitive popup menus and property windows
Encoding: Imported, Adobe Standard, Adobe Cyrillic, Adobe Symbol, Windows ANSI, ISO Latin
Printouts: Character, Preview, Font Table
Hardware requirements: 16MB RAM, SVGA Monitor, Mouse
Software requirements: WIN95, WIN98/2K, WIN NT, or Mac OS8.1+

Download the Windows version demo (doesn't export). (1.8 mB)
Download the Macintosh trial version. (3.0 mB)