Glyphs might be a bit more popular than BirdFont. We know about 18 links to it since March 2021 and only 14 links to BirdFont. We are tracking product recommendations and mentions on various public social media platforms and blogs. They can help you identify which product is more popular and what people think of it.
Although we had never designed a font before, we had extensive experience using Figma to create our app's user interface, custom icons, and svgs over the past few years. Recognizing that creating a font from scratch would be a daunting task, we opted to adapt Nunito. To re-design and create our own stamp on the typeface, we chose Glyphs [1], a beautifully crafted and meticulously planned program. Over the course... - Source: Hacker News / 3 months ago
I agree that 150usd might be too cheap for pro market but like I mentioned maybe they found out they need to first go for amateurs. Who knows maybe they will make it more expensive in future or offer some kind of pro option. I also have to mention maybe your expectations are a bit skewed? Software dev got cheaper and not everything has to be breakneck hype venture capital squeeze. There is type design software... - Source: Hacker News / 3 months ago
Get the free trial of Glyphs and you can turn it into a font. Source: over 1 year ago
Glyphs (Mac only) and FontLab (Mac+Windows) are both very well regarded. Source: over 1 year ago
I recently redesigned one of my conscripts and had a pleasant experience using Glyphs 3. It's a paid product but offers a 30 days free trial which was enough for my immediate needs. Source: over 1 year ago
In this process, we need to use birdfont to complete this final step. - Source: dev.to / 5 days ago
All I what I saw are premium software. The only software I found at the lowest price is (FontBird)[https://birdfont.org/] = $10. But I don't know, I downloaded the free version (which doesn't support color fonts) and it seems to me that the software is not maintained well or glitchy! Source: over 1 year ago
FontForge is the best free font editor right now, although there are some others in development. A great place to start learning is to read the Design with FontForge ebook, which will quickly teach you a lot of the basics that can be applied no matter which font editing software you're using. If you're struggling with FontForge, you can also try BirdFont which is a bit simpler. Source: almost 2 years ago
Besides, for adding the ligatures I use Birdfont for Linux. Source: about 2 years ago
More seriously, not really. Well maybe you can try Birdfont but usually FontForge is regarded as the most complete free editor. Birdfont looks more simple so it might work for you, I don’t know much about it. Source: over 2 years ago
FontForge - Free (libre) font editor for Windows, Mac OS X and GNU+Linux
FontCreator - This professional font editor allows you to create and edit TrueType and OpenType fonts.
FontLab VI - font creation and editing, including variable fonts and color fonts
FontStruct - FontStruct. Build, Share, Download Fonts
TruFont - TruFont is a font-editing application written with Python3, ufoLib, defcon and PyQt5.
Fontself Maker for Photoshop - Turn any lettering into color & vector fonts