Typophile

TypeTool orFontographer?

jonathanhughes

I bought Fontographer in the 90s, did some type design, then moved on to other things, and haven’t touched FOG since. I want to get back into type design, so I’m wondering which makes more sense: upgrading to FOG 4.7 or getting TypeTool. Either option would cost me $99, and since it’s been so long since I’ve used FOG, I’m not concerned about having to re-learn anything by moving to TypeTool. I know FOG should have some more features than TT, but after looking at the product comparison chart, they look really equal (with TT ahead in some features).

Since I’m more or less a beginner at this point, I don’t need super advanced features, and TT seems like a more modern program, and maybe a bit easier to use, and if I ever decided to upgrade to Fontlab, I’d already know how to use the program.

Anyone have any recommendations?

thanks!

Jonathan

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Jason Pagura

Folks have asked similar questions before throughout the forums.
While I don’t wish to cause the Fontlab people any grief, but do consider FontForge.
It’s a little awkward and messy in some respects, notably that you have to get it working in X11 or Cygwin rather than native operating environments (unless you’re on a Linux box), but the features are more than good enough and it’s not going to cost you anything for trying.

Thomas Phinney

It’s a tough call because you already know Fontographer a bit, but you say you’re not concerned about learning, so I’d pick TypeTool. It is a good stepping-stone to FontLab, which is the primary tool used by professionals these days, including us at Adobe.

Cheers,

T

Bert Vanderveen

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