Då äntligen kommer en ny version av FontLab. Ett typsnitts-designs-verktyg som fått se sig förbisprunget av bland andra Glyphs och RoboFont. I rättvisans namn kan man behöva använda alla dessa tillsammans och kanske mer därtill för att skapa en professionell och internationellt gångbar typsnittsfamilj. Något som nu FontLab kanske fixar till.
Några av nyheterna i korthet:
CREATE & EDIT
- Drawing tools: Brush, Pencil, Rapid, Pen, Ellipse, Rectangle
- Editing tools: Contour, Shape, Knife, Scissors, Magnet, Fill, Guides/Meter
- Advanced tools: Tunni Lines, Nudge, Power Nudge, Auto Curvature, Balance, Power Guides, Clones, Glued Shapes, Power Brush, Pins and expressions
- New operations: Harmonize, Balance, Simplify, Align, Restore overlap
- New point types: Genius, Servant, Smart corner
- View: FontAudit, Curvature, Layers
- Actions: from rotate to shadow
- Suggest: nodes, bounds, stems, tangents
- Axis-based design: arbitrary masters, MutatorMath
- Sketchboard
METRICS & OPENTYPE
- Linked and adaptive sidebearings
- True group kerning
- View kerning group cloud
- KLTF-optimized kerning output
- Linked and adaptive anchors
- Harfbuzz OpenType Layout engine, support for all types of lookups
- Anchor cloud view
- Anchors used to generate composites and mark/mkmk features
PRODUCTION
- Font export profiles
- Full support for Unicode, custom encoding and smart glyph search
- Projects to work with font families
- Clones, Tags, Flags, Anchors, Stickers
- Open: OTF, TTF, PostScript (PFB/PFA), WOFF, EOT, SVG, FontLab (VFB, XFO, VFC), UFO, Fontographer, Glyphs, Ikarus, and any of these in Zip files
- Generate: OTF, TTF, PostScript (PFB/PFA/Mac), WOFF, EOT, SVG, FontLab (VFB, XFO, VFC), UFO
- Color fonts: OpenType in SVG, sbix, COLR/CPAL and CBDT/CBLC flavors; SVG fonts; Photofont PNG and SVG
