AND when you finally do have a download link, be sure to copy every file you download to an external drive (or 2 or 3) so you never have to hunt for download links if they are moved again. Also make a text file containing ALL of your serial numbers and copy that file as well. (6.0.4 / 6.0.5) update JeffAWright. Adobe Employee, Jun 17, 2019.
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Boost your design productivityYou can draw smooth, consistent glyphs, autotrace bitmaps, create overlaps, simplify paths, equalize stems, scale outlines while keeping stroke thickness. You can draw in fractional or integer coordinates, see view numeric and visual measurements, find & fix contour imperfections.You can space and kern in multi-line tabs or windows that feel like a text editor. You can create, open, extend, test and export font families, variable OpenType fonts, color fonts and web fonts for any Unicode writing system. And you can interchange with other font editing apps, and collaborate with their users. Turn your ideas into shipping fontsFontLab 7 is versatile and battle-proven.Designers from all over the world have used the app to create massive variable font families ( by Parachute, by Alexandra Korolkova & Oleksa Volochay / ParaType, by Alexandra Korolkova & Manvel Shmavonyan / ParaType, by Jordan Jelev & Vassil Kateliev / Fontmaker), ambitious historical revivals ( by Dave Lawrence / California Type Foundry), decorative one-offs ( by Matthijs Herzberg), and color OpenType fonts like the titling font for the movie by Chad Danieley. Curve TensionCurve tension is a measure of how much a curve deviates from a straight line between two points, from zero to 100%.
So for example, Helvetica has more tense curves than Frutiger or Myriad. A smooth outline will have constant tension, or a steady decrease or increase from curve to curve. FontLab 7 not only lets you visualize curve tension, but also lets you see it numerically, edit it visually, and even use the Rapid tool to draw curves with tension set to your specifications. So if you want to make a font with more squarish curves like Helvetica or Eurostile, FontLab 7 can help you draw it that way from the start. For design space explorersA font family consists of fonts that have different locations on one or more design space Axes, such as width, weight, slant or optical size. To create interpolated instances or a variable OpenType (TT or new CFF2) font from one or more Font masters, use Font Info to add the axes and assign axis locations for all font masters within your FontLab font.Use the Variations panel to preview and control the interpolation and extrapolation results.
Switch between the glyph layers that represent font masters and glyph-specific correction masters using the Layers & Masters panel. New Substitute a glyph with another one in parts of the design space. Turn on Edit Across Layers to add, remove or edit nodes on all masters at once. In an instanceEasily plan your Instances for an extensive font family or a variable font. With axis instances, define per-axis interpolation locations and style phrases, and FontLab will automatically build a matrix of all instances for all axes, with correct Style names and Style groups.Change the axis order to influence auto-style naming, set your main master’s Slope to Italic for automatic italic style linking.
Tweak the instances names or weight/width class, and export all or just the enabled instances in one go! From Multiple Master to VariationsThanks to our Variations engine based on MutatorMath, your Masters no longer need to stand in the MM corners, but can be placed freely within the design space. Unlimited axes, intermediate font masters, glyph masters that affect only certain glyphs give you complete freedom in designing interpolable font families and variable OpenType fonts.FontLab 7 can open MM VFB fonts made in FontLab Studio, can open and export both TrueType- and CFF2-based OpenType Variations fonts, and Glyphs files and UFO-based DesignSpace families.FontLab 7 also uses intelligent interpolation in many other areas, including the rewind feature, power nudge, and servant points.
Intelligent interpolationTo create intermediate designs via interpolation, you need all your glyph masters to have the same number and geometric structure of contours and nodes. FontLab can help you automatically match your masters by sorting contours, relocating start points and correcting path direction.This can happen on the fly, or permanently — with the Match Masters command, which can even blend between two really incompatible masters, intelligently adding nodes where needed. If your masters are already point-perfect, you can disable the automation in Font Info or the Variations panel. A match made in 7. MastersWhether you have two, four, seven or a dozen masters, the improved Matchmaker tool helps you make their point structure compatible for interpolation. Matchmaker works on Sections, which are sequences of line or curve segments.Select the start nodes of a section across all masters, then select the end nodes of the section and click — FontLab will add, remove or relocate intermediate nodes along the section in each master to create matching structures. Wait for the green light, then enjoy a smooth ride along your axes.
Distraction-free spacingPerform metrics and improved kerning editing in a multi-line Metrics Window, with an adjustable, distraction-free UI and intuitive keyboard shortcuts. Step through your phrases with the Pairs & Phrases panel, or dive into details using slanted sidebearings and the Measurement line.Apply OpenType Layout features, even for complex and RTL scripts, including new language-specific features. Easily switch between glyph input, drawing and spacing without changing your workspace. Kerning that just worksClass kerning is now compatible with UFO and OpenType, without key glyphs, and conflict-free. Preview the Kerning Classes clouds as you kern and compare your decisions with live autokerning suggestions. New Find visual kerning collisions with Audit Kerning.Use the Pairs & Phrases panel to see your kerning plan, or the Kerning panel to see what’s actually in the font. Export KLTF-optimized OpenType kerning that never breaks or overflows.
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The main master’s kerning classes are used for all instances and the variable font. Components, References, and Auto layersUse Components to build accented letters or ligatures from other glyphs — the composite glyphs you create will inherit outlines, guides and anchors from the component sources. Or turn on Auto layer, and the metrics and component positions in the composite glyph layer will always stay up-to-date.Use Element References and the Gallery panel to re-use smaller pieces of the design across glyphs or even within the same glyph.
You don’t need to create separate glyphs for each design fragment, and you can edit a referenced Element anywhere it appears or unlink a reference to make local changes only.When you export to TTF or UFO, FontLab will keep your Components and will convert Element References to Components whenever needed. Embracing your workflowType designers use various tools and workflows. FontLab 7 does not lock you into a proprietary file format. Got fonts in another format? FontLab opens it: OpenType (TT, PS, Variable TT, new Variable PS, SVG, sbix, CBDT, COLR, TTC), Web (WOFF2, WOFF, EOT), FontLab VFB, Fontographer, improved Glyphs, improved DesignSpace+UFO, PostScript Type 1, TrueType, Ikarus, even old Mac fonts on Windows (in a Zip container)!Instead of reinventing the wheel, FontLab 7 uses the industry’s best solutions: Adobe FDK for OpenType, Microsoft ClearType, TTFAutohint, MutatorMath, fontTools with varLib, HarfBuzz, ICU, Python (APIs compatible with FontLab Studio and RoboFab), the KLTF kerning optimizer and a SpeedPunk-style curvature view. Components, Elements.
Build glyphs from Components that point to other glyphs, or from Element References that cross-reference each other and can be edited anywhere they appear. Decompose a component and unlink a reference to make local changes only. Use Auto layers to build predefined glyphs and keep them automatically updated.Variation. Blend, interpolate and extrapolate fonts, create intermediate weights and styles, build extensive font families and variable OpenType PS & TT fonts with intermediate font and glyph masters, conditional glyph substitutions, and automatic masters matching for point-compatible outlines. Spacing & Kerning. Space entire phrases and kern according to planned pair lists. Apply tracking, modify widths, sidebearings and kerning globally or for selected glyphs.
Automatically or manually link metrics between glyphs using complex expressions. Kern between classes and glyphs in a UFO- and OpenType-compatible way, with exceptions. Automatically build kerning classes. Automatically calculate metrics and kerning, or use autokerning suggestions as you kern manually.
Audit Kerning to find class kerning combinations that produce visual conflicts, and automatically convert them to exceptions.
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