Group panels into a scrollable panel dock.New dark and refined light interface theme.Rock-solid, 100s of bugs fixed, and up to 30× faster performance!.Read Testimonials FontLab 8 highlights since FontLab VI ¶ Explore & prepare ¶ Users say: “amazing and innovative”, “excels in new features and innovations”, “best drawing tools”, “worthy of a master”, “wonderful, very addictive”, “without FontLab, I could do just about nothing” For in-depth knowledge, read the extensive FontLab manual. Tap Shift+F1 to open the context-sensitive Help panel. To find your way in the user interface, hold F1 over any user interface item to read Quick Help. Check out the brand-new text tutorials by Dave Lawrence, and our extensive collection of video tutorials! Since FontLab VI, we’ve greatly expanded our learning materials. Read about the detailed changes in FontLab 8 below. (We’ve reduced the upgrade price, previously it was $459).īelow is a list of the 100 most important changes since FontLab VI, but this is only a scratch of the surface.

Thanks to years of intense daily development, and thanks to the active participation of our users, FontLab 8 is the best and boldest upgrade ever!ĭownload the free fully-functional 10-day trial of FontLab 8 for Mac and Windows! Works on all macOS systems since 10.14 Catalina, and on all Windows since 8.1.Ī new lifetime license for FontLab 8 is US$499, but if you have FontLab VI or FontLab Studio 5, it’s US$299.

Over two years later, in June 2022, we released FontLab 8, followed by FontLab 8.2 in August 2023. We worked hard for the next two years to improve FontLab, and we finally published FontLab 7 in December 2019. In 2017, we released FontLab VI, which was long in the making, but was still far from perfection. It has been the go-to app for pro typeface designers to make smooth and consistent curves, comfortably tweak, space and kern a typeface, and then export technically solid fonts in any format.

We’re listening to your feedback, and we keep making FontLab better every single day. We love type design and font making, and we love our users. Two Minute Customizing Your Metrics WindowĬompared to FontLab VI, FontLab 8.2 has over 1,200 improvements! It’s easier to learn and use, it’s better, it’s faster - and most importantly, it’s way, way more stable and reliable. Merging, Separating, Overlapping Shapes: Surgery Importing Settings and Shortcuts into FL 8Īvoid Mistakes By Following the Basic Vector Rules

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