FWD: Re: Unicode Font Maker

["Mete Kural" <metek at touchtonecorp dot com>]

I'm forwarding this email about font tools from the unicode list since it is relevant to the recent discussion:

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From: John Hudson <tiro at tiro dot com>
Date:  Thu, 28 Jul 2005 09:55:31 -0700

Adam Reisman wrote:

> Can anyone recommend a program I can use to design unicode fonts?

Professional tools:
http://www.fontlab.com/Font-tools/FontLab-4.6/
http://www.fontlab.com/Font-tools/AsiaFont-Studio/
http://www.fontmaster.nl/english/


Cheaper options:
http://www.fontlab.com/Font-tools/TypeTool/
http://www.high-logic.com/fcp.html


Free tools:
http://fontforge.sourceforge.net/


There is also a new shareware tool available from
http://www.cr8.netfirms.com/index10.html
but I have not tried it.


If you are interested in developing OpenType fonts with glyph substitution and 
positioning, you will also want to take a look at Microsoft's free VOLT tool:
http://www.microsoft.com/typography/VOLT.mspx


I recommend reading most of the developer links at the MS typography website
http://www.microsoft.com/typography
even if your target system is not Windows.

John Hudson

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