FontLab Studio

Imports fonts with up to 64,000 glyphs as OpenType PS (.otf), Win TrueType / OpenType TT (.ttf), Win Type 1 (.pfb + .pfm/.afm), ASCII/Unix Type 1 (.pfa + .afm), Mac Type 1 (LWFN as .hqx, .bin), Mac TrueType (.dfont or FFIL as .hqx, .bin), TrueType AAT (.ttf, .dfont), Win Multiple Master (.pfb + .mmm), FontLab 2.5 (.vfa), FontLab 3.0-4.6/TypeTool/AsiaFont Studio/ScanFont/FontLab Studio (.vfb), Ikarus (.ik), BDF Bitmap (.bdf). Also imports glyphs as Adobe Illustrator 8 EPS (.ai, .eps), TIFF, BMP.

Exports fonts with up to 6,400 glyphs* as OpenType PS (.otf), Win TrueType / OpenType TT (.ttf), Win Type 1 (.pfb + .pfm/.afm), ASCII/Unix Type 1 (.pfa + .afm), Win Multiple Master (.pfb + .mmm), FontLab 3.0-4.6/TypeTool/AsiaFont Studio/ScanFont/TransType/FontLab Studio (.vfb). Also exports glyphs as Adobe Illustrator 8 EPS (.ai + .eps), TIFF, BMP. Mac version also exports Mac Type 1 (LWFN), Mac TrueType (.dfont or FFIL), Mac Multiple Master.

*) If you need to generate fonts with more than 6,400 glyphs, try AsiaFont Studio.

Tools: Draw, Erase, VectorPaint, Mirror, Composite, Set Startpoint, Interpolate, Envelope, Remove Overlap, Merge Contours, Subtract Contours, Snap to Guides, Check Connections, Nodes at Extremes, Meter, TrueType and Type 1 manual hinting (with Flex), Undo (100+ levels), Sketch, Knife, Magic Wand, Rotate, Skew, Scale, Intersect Contours

Filters: Actions: Bold, Outline, Sidebearings Control, Scale, Slant, Rotate, Autohint etc. Python-based filters: Digital, Shadow, Bevel, Drops, Slices, Mosaic. All filters can be applied on one or many glyphs. Actions can be also applied on multiple fonts at a time.

Windows: Document Windows: Font, Glyph, Metrics; Dockable panels: Fonts, Preview/OpenType Sample/Anchors, OpenType, Class, Edit Macro, Output; Other panels: Font Map, Transformation, Editing Layers, Properties

Encoding: Unicode (up to 4.1), Custom, ANSI, ASCII, and virtually all known codepages and encodings, Chinese, Japanese and Korean double-byte codepages

Printouts: Font Table, Glyph List, Font Sample, Font Waterfall, Glyph Sample, Glyph Waterfall, Kerning Table, Quick Test

900+-page manual

Hardware requirements: 64MB RAM, SVGA Monitor, Mouse

Software requirements:

For Windows version: Microsoft Windows (95/98/ME/NT/2000/XP). Windows XP SP2 with Python 2.4 recommended.

For Mac version: Mac OS X 10.3 or higher (FontLab Studio will not run on Mac OS 9 but it will run on Intel-based Mac OS X, see details). Keyserver compatible.

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Download FontLab Studio 5.0 for Mac OS X demo version (~7.5MB) by clicking any one of these links (same file, different servers). Demo limitations: export and save limitations.

Mac demo: US1 | US2 | EU | Asia

Download the FontLab Studio 5.0 for Mac user manual (PDF format in a ZIP file, ~12.5 MB) by right-clicking or Ctrl+clicking one of these links and choosing "Save link as" or "Download linked file":

Mac manual: US1 | US2 | EU | Asia (or buy a printed hardcopy)

Download FontLab Studio 5.0 for Windows demo version (~4MB) by clicking any one of these links (same file, different servers). Demo limitations: export and save limitations.

Win demo: US1 | US2 | EU | Asia

Download Python for Windows
To run Python macros, you need Python 2.4 or 2.3 installed (2.4 recommended). See our Python page for more information.

Download the FontLab Studio 5.0 for Windows user manual (PDF format in a ZIP file, ~12.5 MB) by right-clicking or Ctrl+clicking one of these links and choosing "Save link as" or "Download linked file":

Win manual: US1 | US2 | EU | Asia  (or buy a printed hardcopy)

Download the FontLab Studio 5.0 introductory article (PDF format, 5.3 MB) that was published in issue 14 of TYPO magazine (right-click on the link and choose Save As):

Introduction: US

Recommended reading: the book Learn FontLab Fast by Leslie Cabarga and the FontLab forum.

Download free fonts: FreeFont Pro | FreeSans | FreeSerif | Caty Mac | Caty Win

It takes up to a day to process an order. Usually we can get it done within a few hours and you will receive your serial number the same day. Occasionally it won't be until the next business day.