![]() All the kerning and a lot of the spacing is stripped out. This is a cleaned up version of decorative.fog which we used in the first project of the Fontographer book. It’s become a treasured tool I use in my current trade-book writing, designing, and production.” Sample OpenType Fonts for Fontographer 8-bit Display For me, font design is a beloved sideline with which I indulge myself. I’m talking amateurs in the sense that John Baskerville considered himself an amateur-as I also consider myself, though I am certainly not in Baskerville’s league. įontographer had a unique and intuitive set of drawing tools that enable amateurs of that era to enter the world of font design. It came free with the FreeHand Graphics Studio first released in 1995-and everyone probably used it. The majority of designers working in the mid-1990s had a copy of Fontographer. “Fontographer is an application which appeals to experienced graphics designers with a background in PostScript illustration-especially those with FreeHand experience from version 7 and earlier. Nook version $9.95 To quote from the book: Nor Eddine Bahha/Morocco, Jazz pianist, author and font designer ![]() After nearly a decade in FontLab, font design is fun again. It has been a real joy to experience that again. Fontographer is a wonderful drawing experience. It still works the way I have learned to work over the past two decades of digital graphic design. The drawing interface is still clean, clear, and elegant. It is still the same marvelous program with which I first learned to design fonts. There are still a few features of FontLab that, as a professional font designer, I cannot do without. ![]() Don’t get me wrong, FontLab is a great program and I am grateful for what I have learned. I had just spent nine years painfully teaching myself to letterspace by hand, to write OpenType features, and to become accustomed to the tool set of FontLab. When I received the opportunity to go back to my roots, and see what the new Fontographer was like, I was a little concerned. Why do you want to use Fontographer? For the fun of it!
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