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Software Maximum number of glyphs supported Colored glyphs Windows Type 1 (.pfb) editor Mac Type 1 (LWFN) editor OpenType TT / TrueType (.ttf) editor Mac TrueType (sfnt/dfont) editor
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]
This is a category of articles relating to software which can be freely used, copied, studied, modified, and redistributed by everyone that obtains a copy: "free software" or "open source software". Typically, this means software which is distributed with a free software license , and whose source code is available to anyone who receives a copy ...
Fontconfig (or fontconfig) is a free software [6] program library designed to provide configuration, enumeration and substitution of fonts to other programs. Fontconfig was originally written and maintained by Keith Packard, and is currently maintained by Behdad Esfahbod.
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.
On Windows, projects like gdipp [17] and MacType [18] aim to override the system renderer with FreeType. FreeType is also used as a font renderer in ReactOS. [19] As well as being used by the major free software desktop systems, FreeType has been used as a rasterization engine for some modern video games, [20] [21] [22] and Opera for the Wii. [23]
A new version of Fontographer was included in the Macromedia Graphics Suite, which helped its wider adoption. Although development of the font editor was frozen from 1991, when version 4.1 was released, [11] until 2006, many font and graphics designers continued to use it. FontLab, the only serious competitor at the time, was generally ...
MainType Free Edition: Windows Free High-Logic: OpenType TT (OTF or TTF), OpenType PS (OTF), PostScript CID, TrueType, TTC, Color Fonts, Variable Fonts The free edition supports up to 2500 fonts in your font library and can only be used by a non-commercial entity for personal, educational and non-commercial use. MainType: Windows Proprietary ...