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A font editor is a class of application software specifically designed to create or modify font files. Font editors differ greatly depending on if they are designed to edit bitmap fonts or outline fonts. Most modern font editors deal with the outline fonts. Bitmap fonts uses an older technology and are most commonly used in console applications.
8.4.2.8950 September 25, 2024: Proprietary: Fontographer: Jim von Ehr 5.2 Proprietary: Glyphr Studio [3] Matt LaGrandeur, Mateusz Zawartka, Troy Coutu, & Eric Newport 0.5.3 October 2019 GPL3 Glyphs: Georg Seifert 2011 3.2 June 16, 2023: Proprietary, file format and parts of the code open source Ikarus: Proprietary: RoboFont: Proprietary: Type 3 ...
Font substitution is the process of using one typeface in place of another when the intended typeface either is not available or does not contain glyphs for the required characters. Font substitution can be aided by: classifying fonts into generic font families, such that for example a sans serif font is substituted by another sans serif font.
The FONTLIBRARY (originally called the Open Font Library) is a project devoted to hosting and encouraging the creation of fonts released under Free Licenses. [4] [5] It is a sister project to Openclipart [3] [2] [6] and hosts over 6000 fonts from over 250 contributors. [7] These are intended to be downloaded, remixed and shared freely. [8]
Source Code Pro is a set of monospaced OpenType fonts designed to work well in coding environments. This family of fonts complements the Source Sans family and is available in seven weights: Extralight, Light, Regular, Medium, Semibold, Bold, Black. Changes from Source Sans Pro include: [1] Long x-height; Dotted zero; Redesigned i, j, and l
The New Computer Modern font family [24] is a large extension in terms of the number of additional glyphs of the Latin Modern fonts which adds support for several more languages such as Greek, Cyrillic, Hebrew, Cherokee and Coptic. This font family comes in two weights, "Regular" and "Book".
FontForge is a FOSS font editor which supports many common font formats. Developed primarily by George Williams until 2012, FontForge is free software and is distributed under a mix of the GNU General Public License Version 3 and the 3-clause BSD license. [2]
In metal typesetting, a font (American English) or fount (Commonwealth English) is a particular size, weight and style of a typeface, defined as the set of fonts that share an overall design. For instance, the typeface Bauer Bodoni (shown in the figure) includes fonts " Roman " (or "regular"), " bold " and " italic "; each of these exists in a ...