MAKE & EDIT OUTLINE FONTS

• Drawing tools: Pen, Calligraphy Pen, Rectangle, Polygon, Ellipse, Arc, Curve/Corner/Tangent
• Editing tools: Knife, Measurement, lossless (fractional-grid) Scale, Rotate, Slant, Mirror
• Components for accented and composite characters
• Layers: Outline, Template (vector and bitmap background), Guidelines (use arbitrary vector shapes as guides), Hints
• Actions: Clean Up Paths, Remove Overlap, Auto Trace, Change Weight, Blend Fonts

MAKE & EDIT BITMAP FONTS

• Create monochrome bitmap fonts from scratch or from an outline font, and edit them, in multiple sizes
• Export BDF bitmap fonts, and open them in BitFonter for professional post-production, or import them into FontLab Studio 5 for embedding into TrueType SBIT fonts

METRICS & OPENTYPE

• Advance width, left and right sidebearings. Advance height, top and bottom sidebearings for CJK fonts. Metrics assistance to copy metrics to other characters.
• Horizontal and vertical (CJK) pair kerning. Kerning assistance to set equivalent pairs in accented characters.
• Automatic generation metrics and kerning
• Write OpenType feature code in an external text editor using the Adobe FEA syntax and include them in the exported font.

PRODUCTION & EXTENSIONS

• Edit fonts with up to 32,000 glyphs
• Simple production settings`
• Full support for Unicode and custom encoding files
• Autohint fonts for high-quality screen appearance
• Generate the font as Fontographer FOG file or FontLab VFB file, and open it in FontLab VI or FontLab Studio 5 for professional post-production

SYSTEM & FORMATS

• Fontographer 5.2.3 for Windows
  Works on Windows 10, and on Windows XP SP2+ or newer, 32-bit or 64-bit.
• Fontographer 5.2.4 for Mac
  Works on macOS 10.14 Mojave, and on Mac OS X 10.6.8 or newer.
  IMPORTANT Does not and will not work on macOS 10.15 Catalina, macOS 11 Big Sur or newer.
• Import OpenType PS (.otf), Win TrueType / OpenType TT (.ttf), TrueType Collections (.ttc), Type 1, Mac classic suitcases*, Multiple Master, FontLab VFB (.vfb), Adobe Illustrator 8 EPS (.ai, .eps), TIFF, BMP.
• Generate OpenType PS (.otf), Win TrueType / OpenType TT (.ttf), Type 1, Mac classic suitcases *, FontLab VFB (.vfb), monochrome bitmap fonts (.bdf), Adobe Illustrator 8 EPS (.ai + .eps).
• *) Only available in the macOS version of the application
  
• Limitations on Demo Version
  Export and save limitations. Minor issues on Mac OS X 10.10–10.12 (not present in the full version).