Simon Troup wrote:
I've been looking at Fontographer and FontLab recently, it seems MacroMedia sold Fontographer on to FontLab and they've released it for OSX. Does anyone have any practical experience of the two, and offer some advice on their relative merits? Is FontLab just for serious font geeks? Is it worth the extra cash?
But to be fair, I've yet to try out the new OS X native version of Fontographer, but Font Lab is definitely the more modern and up-to-date application. It can create Open Type fonts and all sorts of other goodies. However, Fontographer is still a really good application that works just fine under Classic, and as long as you don't need OpenType or things like Unicode, it does the job very well. It has a few idiosyncracies, but you would expect that for an application that's what, 8 years old or so?
So... if you had to pay the same price, Font Lab would be the way to go. I tell you what though, Fontlab certainly know how to charge for their products!! You may be better off with Typetool ($US99) as you don't want to do anything fancy like blended fonts.
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