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Color OpenType (TTF+SVG, +COLR, +CBDT, +sbix).FontLab now supports color and variability, so you can explore these new possibilities and expand your creative reach. But they reconsidered and streamlined every function.įontLab VI also gives you groundbreaking new drawing tools and responsive contour operations to make your design process easier and more efficient, whether you’re an expert or a beginner.

FontLab brought in the best of their classic apps, FontLab Studio and Fontographer, including many familiar keyboard FontLab shortcuts. It is an all-around font editor, but also supports data interchange with other font creation tools, making it easy to integrate into your existing workflows. FontLab has a large number of options and modes, some of which can affect apparently unrelated tasks or functions, so this is an important area.With FontLab (was FontLab Studio), you can create, open, modify, draw, space, kern, hint, and export desktop, web, color, and variable fonts.

Application configuration (options, modes) necessary for each task are included, either for manual setup or as part of the scripting.

Compatibility between versions of FontLab, Python and OS's are given, so a working combination can be assembled in every case.

(need to collate a list of tutorial examples)

That the material is presented in the appropriate sequence to achieve a given purpose.

That all the materials needed are in one place, so the reader doesn't have to trawl for fragmented info (i.e.

To give programmers who are not font designers an efficient tour of the APIs so they can write scripts for a font designer.

To give non-programming font designers a complete and efficient tutorial to get useful scripting work done.Within the Python scripting chapter, the aim is to support two learning paths: FontLab supports a large range of features and font formats, so the potential scope of this book is correspondingly large.Therefore this book aims to document complete and efficient howto info on all aspects of FontLab usage in production of modern fonts.The initial goal was to cover just Python scripting, but this draws on font design and production techniques, so they need a place too.This book is about using FontLab and FontLab Studio, the Font creation tools from FontLab for both Mac and Windows.