FontLab Studio 5 is our professional font editor for macOS and Windows. Used by Adobe, Apple, IBM, Microsoft, Monotype, Morisawa and almost every other major font foundry in the world, it is the comprehensive solution for font foundries, professional type designers, typographers and graphic design studios, allowing them to design typefaces and create or modify fonts. FontLab Studio 5 offers a complete integrated workflow for professional font creation, from font family management, through multilingual glyph design and accelerated spacing and kerning, all the way to automatic and manual hinting and Python scripting. It supports all major outline font formats, from OpenType and TrueType to PostScript Type 1 and Multiple Master.

FontLab VI

There are a multitude of new features to make designing type easier.

Performance is spectacular. Every function has been re-thought to make your tasks of creating and editing fonts more fun and quicker.

Yet keyboard shortcuts from FontLab Studio were kept wherever possible.

Why are we doing an open, free public preview?

It is nearly feature-complete, but there are many bugs and issues, and we want your input on both user interface and functionality.

The tool is for you, so we want your feedback!

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