FontCreator
Comparison Chart
These features are currently unavailable on macOS, but expect to see them during the next coming months:
- Guidelines
- Automatic hinting
- Unicode variation sequences
- Editing of multiple glyph names (free text and find and replace); rename one by one for now
- Insert characters feature; use insert glyphs instead
- View and edit color glyphs
| Home | Standard | Professional | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Price in US$ | 49.00 | 149.00 | 199.00 |
| License Restrictions | |||
Can be used for commercial purposes |
Yes | Yes | Yes |
| Font Formats | |||
| Project based font editor | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| TrueType and OpenType font files (.ttf and .otf) | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| Web Open Font Format (WOFF and WOFF2) font files | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| Variable fonts (quadratic bezier curves) | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| Variable fonts (CFF2, cubic bezier curves) (open/load only) | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| Scalable color fonts (supporting COLR, CPAL, and SVG tables) | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| Unified Font Object (UFO) font files | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| Designspace documents (variable fonts) | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| Glyphs font format (.glyphs files) | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| Extract fonts from TrueType and OpenType Collections (.ttc and .otc) | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| Outline Editing | |||
| Maximum axes for variable fonts | 2 | 3 | unlimited |
| Quadratic-based contours (used with TrueType based outlines) | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| Cubic-based contours (used with CFF / PostScript based outlines) | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| Basic vector paint tools | Yes | Yes | Yes |
Advanced contour operations |
No | Yes | Yes |
| Optimize contours | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| Guidelines | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| Import vector based images (SVG, EPS, AI, PDF, IGES, etc) | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| Import raster based images (BMP, PNG, GIF, JPG, etc) | Yes | Yes | Yes |
Copy glyph outlines as vector data to the clipboard |
No | No | Yes |
Batch transform glyphs |
No | Yes | Yes |
| Formula to build anchor based composite glyphs | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| Manual editing of composite glyphs | Yes | Yes | Yes |
Automatic composite glyph generation |
No | Yes | Yes |
| Advanced Typography | |||
Automatic hinting |
Yes | Yes | Yes |
| OpenType features are preserved upon opening a font | Yes | Yes | Yes |
Generate OpenType layout features |
Yes | Yes | Yes |
Custom OpenType layout features |
Yes | Yes | Yes |
OpenType proofing and debugging tool |
Yes | Yes | Yes |
Import and export Microsoft VOLT projects |
No | No | Yes |
Import and export Adobe OpenType fea code |
Yes | Yes | Yes |
| Manual kerning | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| Class based kerning | Yes | Yes | Yes |
Automatic kerning |
No | Yes | Yes |
Optical metrics |
No | No | Yes |
| Unicode variation sequences | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| Test and Installation | |||
| Preview fonts before installing (Windows and web browsers) | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| Font installation wizard | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| Quality Control | |||
Automatic font repair |
Yes | Yes | Yes |
Font validation wizard |
No | Yes | Yes |
Real-time glyph validation |
No | Yes | Yes |
| Other Features | |||
| Editing of font naming fields | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| Generate friendly glyph names (for production) | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| Editing of glyph names (free text and find and replace) | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| Editing of glyph metrics (both manual and automatic) | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| Unicode and code page support | Yes | Yes | Yes |
Insert characters feature |
Yes | Yes | Yes |
Maximum number of glyphs |
65,535 | 65,535 | 65,535 |
Maximum number of characters |
unlimited | unlimited | unlimited |
| Buy | Buy | Buy | |