What app you are using for font creation and why?

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Hi Folks,

does anybody here ever created any fonts? Which software have you used or tried? Could you recommend something out there?

Ali R. Tariq · Accepted Answer

Recently used this - pretty neat experience that has potential to grow.

Irene · Answer

Glyphs is also pretty awesome, great UI&UX (available for Mac only)

Irene · Answer

I've made several fonts with FontLab Studio and it's a very flexible tool (available for Both Mac and PC).

Derek Nguyen · Answer

If you've already have Adobe Illustrator or Photoshop, Fontself is a good options. It outputs svg .otf, which behaves just like a normal .otf in programs that don't support svg .otf.

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It is a new app that came out last month, the interface is very simple and neat, it contains all the basic features. Coinbox basically updates every week which means it is a growing product that I can rely on. More importantly, coinbox team would like to know the opinions from the users and always put the users' needs on the top of the list.

Amrith Shanbhag · Answer

I haven't tried it to make fonts but looks promising 🤔

Oren Bochman · Answer

used the pc version of this!

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I can definitly recommend glyphs! I had to create a custom font as a seminarwork at university and this tool was a gamechanger. There is a learningcurve but if you know the features it is a really great tool.