Typeface design editors and tools

The few available editors, applications and tools useful for typeface design, font design (Mac OS or Windows). This list is regularly updated with my finding.

Beginners

FontStruct (online)
TypeTool (demo version)
Font Creator
Font Constructor

Advanced

Fontlab Studio 5.1 (demo version)
Robofont
Glyphs
Fontographer 5.1
Fontmaster, DTL OTMaster

Advanced, additional tools

MetricsMachine
iKern
Prepolator
Superpolator
Simplepolator
FontRemix
FeatureProof
Area51
TypeMyType
UFO central
Rounding UFO
UFO stretch
Autopsy
GlyphProofer
FontPrep
KLTF’s Python scripts
Ben Kiel’s Python scripts
Dunwich Type’s Python scripts
Tom Conroy’s Python scripts
Timo Klaavo’s Scaling Edit Tool + GitHub link.

Ressources

Adobe afdko 2.5
Visual OpenType Layout Tool
Unified Font Object, UFO
TTX
Font to XML
FontForge
sfnt2woff (Conversion utility to WOFF format, if the font license agree for conversions)
ttfautohint
Apple Font Tools 3.1
Microsoft Font Validator
Google sfnty, a Library for Using, Editing, and Creating SFNT-based Fonts

Few references

Import Illustrator files to FontLab
OpenType features how to at ilovetypography
font.org
typophile.com
fontlab.com/forum
About font production at Kltf.de
Arabic Font Production tutorials. at Khtt.net
About Eulas

Jean François Porchez, 1 December 2011
fonts application opentype en logiciels ufo software