BirdFont is a powerful font creation program that lets you create fonts using points or freehand drawing, allowing you to customize existing fonts or create your own designs on the platform.
The tool offers a variety of features to create fully customized fonts and use them on different platforms. Once you download the program from its official website, you'll see a simple interface: on the left you'll find all the services, and in the center is the work area.
To create fonts, you can define paths using multiple points (Bézier curves), or if you're more creative and professional, you can draw freehand.
- Import background images of fonts
- Create and import glyphs (Illustrator and Inkscape)
- Insert your license
- Import SVG files in batch
- Convert images to vector fonts (autotrace)
- Update kerning using a Python script
One of the downsides is the platform's limited format compatibility, as it only supports TTF, EOT, and SVG files.
The tool really has several features for creating fully customized typographic fonts, or you can start from an image or use its default templates. If you want to go further, you'll find a large number of tutorials with step-by-step instructions, videos, and screenshots on the official page of the tool, which will be of great help to get the most out of the environment.
BirdFont is a free program available for Windows, Mac OS X, and Linux.
