You can also adjust kerning manually or use the automatic settings to do it for you. You can manually adjust hinting for an individual glyph, or you can apply automatic hinting to an entire font. Using the skew function it’s easy to create an italic version of a font that does not automatically include italics.

TypeTool has a batch transformation feature that lets you shift, rotate, scale, skew and flip. Guidelines within the glyph editor help you make sure your glyphs are uniformly sised. There are also tools to let you add corners, curves, tangents, rectangles and ellipses to your glyphs. These help you insert nodes (points along a path in the glyph’s outline), remove overlapping contours and alter contours by merging, intersecting, breaking or joining them. brush, pen, eraser and knife tools), as well as advanced tools. TypeTool has a variety of basic drawing and vector paint tools available (e.g. TypeTool supports font design for languages that read from right to left, making it easier than ever to create an Arabic or Hebrew font. But with TypeTool, you can stop worrying.

With lower-quality font editor software, you risk running out of space in your glyph set. With the ability to create and edit more than 65,500 glyphs, your font design options are nearly limitless! You can create a font as large as you want, even in languages that have far more glyphs than traditional English.įor example, Arabic has different glyphs for any given character depending on where it appears in a word or sentence. Description Experience TypeTool’s incredible glyph support capabilities

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