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FontForge -- An outline font editor that lets you create your own postscript, truetype, opentype, cid-keyed, multi-master, cff, svg and bitmap (bdf, FON, NFNT) fonts, or edit existing ones. Also lets you convert one format to another. FontForge has support for many macintosh font formats.FontForge's user interface has been localized for: (English), Russian, Japanese, French, Italian, Spanish, Vietnamese, Greek, Simplified & Traditional Chinese, German, Polish.Different font formatsFontForge supports Type1, truetype, opentype, cff, type42, cid-keyed and svg fonts, also bdf and NFNT for bitmapsFontForge will sort-of accept metafont files (essentially it runs metafont and autotraces the result). It won't produce .mf filesFontForge will read (but not produce) Ikarus filesFontForge will read acorn font files with a helper app. Er... What is a font editor?A font editor is a progam designed to creat and modify fonts.The most obvious aspect is that it is a drawing program like FreeHand, Inkscape or Illustrator which lets you draw the outlines of your letters. Unlike other drawing progams it expects you to draw many pictures at once (one or more for each letter) and collects them into a database.It allows you to describe the way these pictures interact with each other (if you put one picture after the other then they should normally be separated by a certain distance -- the font's metrics, or if these two pictures are placed adjacent to one another then they turn into a third -- the font's ligatures, and so on).Finally a font editor will bundle up all the pictures you have drawn, and all the metadata about how those pictures fit together, and will turn that bundle of stuff into a font that your computer can use to display text. Quote Eeyore had three sticks on the ground, and was looking at them. Two of the sticks were touching at one end, but not at the other, and the third stick was laid across them. Piglet thought that perhaps it was a Trap of some kind. ``Oh, Eeyore,'' he began again, ``just ---'' ``Is that little Piglet?'' said Eeyore, still looking hard at his sticks. ``Yes, Eeyore, and I---'' ``Do you know what this is?'' ``No,'' said Piglet. ``It's an A.'' ``Oh,'' said Piglet. ``Not O, A,'' said Eeyore severely. -- A. A. Milne, 1928 The House At Pooh Corner Font design can be a Trap, but I find it a rather pleasant one. Caveat utor.
Eeyore had three sticks on the ground, and was looking at them. Two of the sticks were touching at one end, but not at the other, and the third stick was laid across them. Piglet thought that perhaps it was a Trap of some kind. ``Oh, Eeyore,'' he began again, ``just ---'' ``Is that little Piglet?'' said Eeyore, still looking hard at his sticks. ``Yes, Eeyore, and I---'' ``Do you know what this is?'' ``No,'' said Piglet. ``It's an A.'' ``Oh,'' said Piglet. ``Not O, A,'' said Eeyore severely. -- A. A. Milne, 1928 The House At Pooh Corner Font design can be a Trap, but I find it a rather pleasant one. Caveat utor.