Free Font Editors, Font Creation Software and Sites
Make your own fonts with these software and online services
Free Font Editors and Font Creation Software / Sites
Ever fancied making or designing your own fonts? The free software listed on this page allow you to create and edit your own fonts. Depending on the software, the program may allow you to create a TrueType, OpenType, Postscript, bitmap / raster font, or some other type of font.
For those who merely want to use free fonts rather than create their own fonts, please see the Free Fonts page instead. In addition, if you only want to create bitmap or raster fonts, you may also want to check out the Free Resource Editors and Compilers page, which may have font editors to create and edit raster fonts.
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Disclaimer
The information provided on this page comes without any warranty whatsoever. Use it at your own risk. Just because a program, book, document or service is listed here or has a good review does not mean that I endorse or approve of the program or of any of its contents. All the other standard disclaimers also apply.
Free Font Editors and Online Font Making Sites
- Type Light (Windows)
This font editor lets you create and design OpenType fonts, as well as convert between OpenType TrueType (.ttf) and PostScript (.otf) fonts. It supports the creation and editing of fonts containing up to 65,535 glyphs, input OpenType metrics, names and parameters, map glyphs to any of 65,536 Unicode characters, copy glyphs between fonts, etc. The program is licensed for personal use and for limited commercial use (see their licence agreement for details).
- FontForge: Free Font Editor (Windows, Mac OS X, Linux, etc)
FontForge is an outline font editor that allows you to create and edit TrueType, OpenType, Postscript, CID-keyed, Multi-master, CFF, SVG, and bitmap (BDF, FON, NFNT) as well as many Macintosh font formats. It has many features, including the ability for you to add hints to your font, either manually or allowing the software to automatically generate hints. (Hints allow your fonts to still look good at small font sizes.) You can also use the program to convert fonts from one format to another. The software is available for Windows, Mac OS X, Linux, VMS, and so on.
- FontStruct: Online Font Editor to Build, Share and Download Fonts (systems with Flash)
FontStruct is an online font editor that allows you to build and share the fonts that you create online through their site. You do not need to download any software onto your computer - just create it with your browser. You can create Postscript fonts, TrueType fonts, OpenType fonts as well as Flash pixel fonts. Since it uses Flash for the editor, it should work on systems with the latest versions of Flash.
- Raster Font Editor (Windows)
This is a simple raster font editor that lets you create bitmap fonts. You can save your raster fonts as font resources (fnt), a resource script (rc), Windows bitmaps (bmp) and text files (txt). It is a Windows program.
- GNU Font Editor (Source only)
The GNU Font Editor is a graphical font editor derived from GIMP (see the Free Drawing and Painting Software, Image and Photo Editing Programs page for details of this). At present, it is available only in source form.
- Private Character Editor (Windows)
Did you know that Windows XP comes with a font editor? You don't have to download anything - it's already on your computer if you're running Windows. To access it, just click the Run command from your Start menu. In the window that appears, type "eudcedit" (without the quotes) and click the OK button. The editor is primitive at best. Information about how to use it can be found in the Help menu of the program.
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