Many users need to have multiple fonts installed on their operating system. The use of digital typography is essential for graphic design, application development, and many other tasks. That’s why at Neoteo we bring you five free tools to edit and create fonts. While the market offers a wide range of free and commercial fonts, if you need to customize a typeface, this is where font editing utilities come into play.
FontForge
We’ll start with FontForge, a powerful editor and creator of digital fonts that stands out for its user-friendly platform. Its work environment offers a host of functions that let you customize each letter to the max (freehand curves, 3D rotation, several metric functions, and transformation). FontForge is a free application available for Windows, Mac OS X, and Linux.
Type Light
Next is Type Light, a platform that lets you edit and create digital fonts from scratch easily. With the app, you can also quickly edit TrueType and PostScript curve formats. Once you’re done, you can save your fonts in TTF or OTF format. Type Light is a free application available for Windows in both 32-bit and 64-bit versions.
Font Maker Bit
Now it’s time for Font Maker Bit, an online tool that lets you create fonts simply and very quickly. With the platform, you can import fonts in TTF format, use its extensive gallery, or use the “Sample” option to create a font from a template. Font Maker Bit is a free web application that works perfectly in all web browsers.
Raster Font Editor
Raster Font Editor is a tool that lets you create and edit fonts whose characters are represented as bitmap images. Getting started is very easy: you just import a font in BMP or TTF format and start editing it to the fullest. Raster Font Editor is a free application available for Windows.
Allegro Font Editor
We’ll wrap up with a bang: Allegro Font Editor, a powerful application for editing and creating fonts that offers many functions but comes with a rather dated graphical interface. Once you load a font into the work area, you just click on the chosen pictogram and start editing (change canvas size, apply effects, load a custom color palette). Allegro Font Editor is a free application available for Windows. Although it hasn’t been updated in a long time, its editing engine is truly very powerful.
With these free tools for editing fonts, you can unleash your creativity and transform and personalize your typography.
