It seems that Fontlab has become the standard font production software, but has anyone used the DTL Fontmaster modules? There seems to be such a high regard for their typefaces I’m curious if the software is equally good.
Typophile
DTL Fontmaster - Thoughts?
Just quickly, at 5 am ... The best thing would be to download the demo version, test it, and decide for yourself. :)
Three things that come to my mind: BezierMaster’s bolding function gives better results than FLS’s. The way the FontMaster modules deal with OT features is quite smart — they generate a font-specific feature file from a big one and omit specific substitutions if required glyphs are missing in the font. Also, you only need to set up a .cha file (which links glyph IDs, glyph names, Unicode codepoints) once and do not need to care for these things any more.
Chris if you can make it ATypI Frank will likely be offering a day of FM demos and training. It always attracts a dozen or so followers along with the curious.
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