FontCreator Home Edition

Creatively placed text always attracts attention. As schoolchildren, we always had our scrapbooks decorated and designed vividly with lots of colors and nice looking and stylish fonts by which we wrote various projects and homework. Even today, with the help of computers we have lots of fonts and jazzy looking and artistic writing styles by the means of which we can enhance several of our web based procedures like advertising and article writing in lots of colors and fonts. Even in websites, we have text placed in diverse forms and designs that is conceptualized by web designers who create the web pages and decide the aesthetics. FontCreator Home Edition 5.6 is a related application that helps in creating and editing fonts in different styles that can be mastered by anybody.

FontCreator Home Edition opens with a neatly arranged interface with the main options placed at the top pane and multiple controls available for measuring and creating fonts with diverse styles that help in skewing, stretching and performing many other procedures for creating the font. The program contains powerful font creation tools that typographers and graphic designers use and even novices can effectively navigate through. When a specific font is created, the program displays thumbnails of all the characters that are available and the user just needs to select one and work on it. Alternatively, the program also supports importing imagery and can even help in creating a font on a particular handwriting. Further, it also provides previews before installing and fixes character mapping and improvise the quality of fonts created.

As per the aforesaid details, FontCreator Home Edition 5.6 is an application that holds utility for lot of people that include professional designers and even students for any project work. However, owing to negative feedback, it manages to earn a rating of three points only.

This professional font editor allows you to create and edit TrueType and OpenType fonts. It has the powerful font-creation tools that typographers and graphic designers require, and an intuitive interface that even allows beginners to become productive immediately.
When you create or open a font, FontCreator displays thumbnails of all available characters. Simply select a character, and modify its appearance, or add missing characters. You can import (scanned) images of your signature, company logo, or make a font based on your own handwriting.
Other features include the ability to preview fonts before installing, and a font installation wizard, that makes your fonts available to other applications. FontCreator also lets you fix character mappings, edit and regenerate font names, generate, modify and clean up kerning pairs.
The validation features enable you to improve the quality of your fonts. The drawing tools greatly simplify and speed up the glyph design process. The enhanced transformation scripts let you create hundreds of additional characters in seconds. FontCreator's intelligent generation of composites, allows you to automatically generate outlines for more than 2,200 characters.
Whether you're a type designer or graphic artist who needs a font creation powerhouse, or a hobbyist who wants to have fun creating new fonts, FontCreator has the tools you need.