Designing a typeface is a different discipline from illustration — a single glyph needs to work at 8pt on screen and 200pt in print, in regular and bold, across every character the Unicode standard touches. FontCreator Pro handles the technical side so the designer can focus on form.
Contour tools : Bézier pen · On-curve point · Off-curve handle
Corner / Smooth toggle · Node type conversion
Measurement : Sidebearing lock · Kerning pair preview · Metrics ruler
Guideline · Grid snap · Baseline / Cap-height / x-height markers
Manipulation : Mirror · Rotate · Skew · Scale (uniform/non-uniform)
Union · Subtract · Intersect · Exclude (Boolean)
Auto-derive diacritics from base glyphs
Ligatures (liga, dlig) · Small caps (smcp, c2sc) · Oldstyle figures (onum) · Tabular figures (tnum) · Fractions (frac) · Superscript/subscript · Stylistic sets (ss01–ss20) · Kerning (kern) · Mark positioning · GSUB / GPOS table editor
Weight (wght) · Width (wdth) · Slant (slnt) · Optical size (opsz) · Custom axes — define deltas per master, interpolate automatically
Font validator (OpenType spec compliance) · Auto-hinting (TTF) · Manual hint editor · Export: TTF · OTF · WOFF · WOFF2 · EOT
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