BirdFont

A font editor for drawing vectors and exporting TTF, OTF, and SVG fonts.

Visit BirdFont official site

What it does

Birdfont describes vector glyph creation and lists support for both monochrome and color font formats.

When to use it

For a custom typeface, create a few representative characters and test proportions and spacing before expanding the set.

Calligraphr

A web application for turning handwriting and calligraphy into fonts.

  • handwriting
  • font-editor

Fonts

FontForge

An outline font editor for creating and modifying typefaces.

  • font-editor
  • type-design

Fonts

FontLab

A collection of tools for creating, editing, and converting fonts.

  • font-editor
  • type-design

Fonts