Next came TransType, a font converter for moving fonts between TrueType, OpenType and Type 1 formats and between Macintosh and Windows platforms. With FontLab VI, the ScanFont functionality was again integrated into the main application. ScanFont, a tool for converting scans and bitmaps of glyphs into vector glyphs was part of FontLab 2, but in the next version it was split off, and became a stand-alone application. Īt a time when fonts came in different formats and were platform-specific, FontLab also began to create a line of font creation and conversion utilities. OpenType features for complex scripts like Arabic, Devanagari, and Thai are not directly supported, but can be added through Microsoft’s Volt. These functions are now included in Fontlab Studio since version 5.1.

In the past, AsiaFont Studio (or Fontlab Composer) was a more sophisticated version of Fontlab, with special features for editing Chinese, Japanese and Korean fonts. TypeTool, a simplified version of FontLab Studio, is quite inexpensive and serves as an entry level typeface editor, which is popular with students, hobbyists, and those whose typographic needs are relatively simple. In addition, FontLab has developed spinoff font editors for specific markets. Although initially Windows versions always came first, with FontLab VI, the two versions have become in sync, with simultaneous releases. Since then, FontLab (FontLab Studio for version 5) has been issued for both Mac and Windows. įontLab's first Mac OS product was FontLab 3 for Mac, in 1998. Petersburg, while the company is incorporated in Panama. The company is distributed, but programming is still done primarily by a Russian team, partly in St. Pyrus North America eventually bought all the rights to FontLab, hired Yarmola, then restructured as Fontlab Ltd., Inc. was formed in the United States to distribute and market FontLab 2.0 for Microsoft Windows, which was released in 1993. of Saint Petersburg, Russia, under lead programmer Yuri Yarmola. The software was initially developed by the company SoftUnion Ltd. FontLab is available for Windows and macOS. Since the early 2000s, it has been the dominant software tool for commercial/retail digital font development. FontLab is a font editor developed by Fontlab Ltd., Inc.

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